“Fab Friday” and the Demise of the “WePo” Acronym
October 22, 2009 | 5:36 pm
Nice work everyone.
Your brutally honest feedback has caused the purveyors of fine items along West Ponce to “shelve” the term “WePo” until further notice. But your snide commentary isn’t the only reason for putting the Soho-wannabe term on hiatus. As Marc from Heliotrope notes, Fab Friday now includes Squash Blossom on the Square, so it’s no longer WePo exclusive!
Anyway, here’s the well-known brochure that tells us that another “Fab Friday” is upon us. Click it to enlarge and see all the deals.
And after the jump, see details for Heliotrope’s Fab Friday carnival!
Your headline scared the bejesus out of me. I was afraid all the shops in the West Ponce area had closed.
OK, I made the headline more specific.
But did you really think that all the shops had closed? This is a town, not a mall.
I think that WePo should not only die, it should have never been born.
Do you mean Squash Blossom?
He does, but at least he did not say Squash Bosom
Wow…that’s a pretty ridiculous mistype. I hope folks will believe me when I say that I do know the name of that long-time Decatur business.
I don’t have any objection to indicating directions in downtown Decatur’s area as NoPo, SoPo, EPo, and WePo, especially as SOME stores just “assume” you know where they are located. Some store advertisements don’t even provide a street address or phone # at all, so even though I might want to go there, it involves trying to find a website or a telephone listing (good luck using our miserable-quality phone directories). I want to put in a plug for Heliotrope while I’m here — they keep long hours at their shop and work very hard to bring in fresh merchandise of beauty and/or interest.
There’s already a SoPo, as in the Bicycle Cooperative. They are South of Ponce and So Po’ (poor) they need help fixing their bikes.
I missed the snide commentary.
The bicycle cooperative’s use of SoPo to characterize their business activity is clever. But the designations SoPo and NoPo existed for decades before they ever opened their doors.
“WePo” doesn’t take any more syllables to say than “West Ponce,” and “West Ponce” is clearer and more like how real people speak.
SoHo started in New York to mean “South of Houston Street,” and no one there really knows it it’s pronounced HUGH-ston or HOUSE-ton, so it saves time and makes things easier. Almost all the derivates of that over the years are overly cutesy and self-concious, and come from retail or marketing people trying to add some upscale, hip cache’ that generally doesn’t exist. If your neighborhood.
West Ponce is a cool part of town. Doesn’t need a funny name to make it so.