After spending two weeks in New York City and riding the lines for practical purposes…I had breakfast at Subway in Windsor Locks…I noticed that the wall paper showed the Subway when it opend acoring to the World Newspaper…
But Wait the map is from the 1960s?? and another section is from the 1800s…
Can anyone here explain what I am looking at when I am staring at the walls in a Subway Shop?
Same thing on the walls of our local Subway shop here. I suspect that the decor was designed by some corporate type who keyed on “subway” without regard to historical context or consistency.
Did you contact Subway themsleves & pose your question to them? I’m sure they will give you your reply
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Are you kidding me…Dunken Donuts has yet to reply to my question to them about the train comercail?
You’re looking at period pictures and maps of the NYC subways. From my musings, I don’t think their decorator (if there was one) strived for historical coherence, but something to divert attention for those waiting in line.
Because you are standing in line waiting to order a sandwich?
Yes but what am I looking at?
One panel shows a elevated prominade
Right, I’m originally from the MidWest, and the first thing I noticed is that New Yorkers have ants in their pants. Waiting 10 seconds is an eternity to them. If they’re distracted, they’re less annoyed.
Your looking at the walls…because the girl behind the counter is coyote ugly?
Worse than that, they’re all guys. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a girl at the counter in the one across the street from my building.
eh, fugetaboutit.
LOL.
this is so true…
The later Subway shops in Australia have the maps and pictures in shades of yellow, so it is very difficult to follow the maps and pictures, but in the older shops, the maps are just a collage of old maps, maybe from as far back as 1900 -1910, often showing the same area two or three times (the East River is most popular) at different times during the system’s development! Top and bottom of the maps are repeated patterns of an end view of a subway car and a full height view of the Empire State Building. I keep thinking how good it is that they didn’t pick the World Trade Towers! But that would have been inconsistent with the Art Deco/ pre WWII image anyway!
M636C
FWIW-My girlfriend and several of her family members own Subway franchises and we do the most of the build outs and remodels of the stores ourselves. The wallpaper is just a collage of several maps and pictures of NYC subway system and the areas and buildings it serves. In our market we have to purchase it directly from Subway corporate, which is actually owned and operated by Doctor’s Associates, Inc. I’m certain they have a department that deals with nothing other than the aesthetics of the stores as we have been required to remodel some of our stores to keep from being marked “out of compliance” by our regional Subway franchise inspector.
I’m also betting that when the wallpaper was designed they weren’t figuring anyone would be paying such close attention to notice the diagrams are incomplete and inaccurate, nor did they probably care. [:p] Still, when I’m stuck there waiting for my girlfriend to finish her shift it is better than staring at the floor.
MIke
Do they own one in Park Ridge?
It’s there as part of the ambiance, nothing more. Only the people in this forum would take it seriously. Still, I think they could improve it.
Couldn’t have said it better.[:D]
Unfortunately Park Ridge isn’t one of their locations. Their stores are primarily in McHenry county. They either partially or fully own stores in Crystal Lake(3), Fox River Grove, Cary, Algonquin(2), and the store in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.
Mike
I don’t like subway that much, but I think some subway trains should have miniature resturants of the same thing.
Plus…I LIKE BURGERS!
Mc Donalds is #1!!!
The New York World Newspaper had a Subway edition that the wallpaper copys from…
-The New York World was a newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931.
The newspaper was unsuccessful until it was purchased by Joseph Pulitzer in 1883. Nellie Bly, a journalist on the title became the first investigative journalist, often working undercover. As a publicity stunt for the paper inspired by Around the World in Eighty Days, she travelled around the planet in 72 days.
In 1896, the newspaper became the first to launch a color supplement. It then joined a circulation battle with the New York Journal.
In 1911, Joseph Pulitzer died, passing control of the title to his son. The paper published the first crossword puzzle in 1913, but declined in popularity until it merged with the Evening Telegram in 1931 as the New York World-Telegram. –
Now If I can find backcopys of the World Newspapr out there maybe at some university