Readers may remember that Electric Beach tanning salon on 45th St closed in July amidst a blaze of typos. Commenters, unsympathetic to their pale skinned neighbors, chortled with schadenfreude. Well, wipe off those smirks, dear readers. An anonymous tipster reports that he heard from the owner of a chain of tanning salons that they're planning to open a store in the space recently vacated by Electric Beach. "He didn't say when but I saw him & a couple other guys there…
The Grand Dame of Wallingford events is coming up this Sunday, October 4, the Wallingford Home Tour. Purchase a ticket at Stoneway Hardware, Tweedy and Popp or the Wallingford Neighborhood Office ($15 adults / kids under 12 free) and you'll get a map of eight homes around the neighborhood that have been carefully selected for their architectural distinction and their owners' sunny willingness to allow a parade of perfect strangers to tromp through their living rooms. We don't know which houses…
This report sent in by Lower Wallingford Correspondent, Chris Witwer. And in the spirit of full disclosure: Chris works for the biologists who are the focus of this post. Ever wonder what that brick building is on 34th street, across from Essential Baking? Or do you know it simply as "The Biology Place?" Perhaps you saw the "Institute for Systems Biology" listed as a sponsor of the Wallingford Kiddies Parade & wondered who the heck they are. Want to know more? The…
Keen eyes alerted us to another fallen business on 45th Street: Winchell's. We got this note from an anonymous tipster yesterday morning: Any word on Winchells closing or are they just having a bad day? I walk by there twice a day to & from the bus but never pay much attention as I'm not that into donuts. This morning, I noticed two guys peeking in the window and this caught my attention so I glanced in to see a semi-dark…