Man Wants To Put A Starbucks In Lizzie Borden's Home

[matcom]

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FALL RIVER -- The imposing brown house where an elderly couple was hacked to death by a hatchet-wielding murderer more than 100 years ago might seem an unlikely spot for a bed-and- breakfast and a new Starbucks. But Donald Woods -- a former Marine who has long experience as an executive running hospitals, nursing homes, and catering businesses -- sees potential profits as he strolls the grounds on Second Street.

The Lizzie Borden house, home to one of America's most enduring murder mysteries, just became the property of Woods and his girlfriend, Lee-ann Wilber, an amateur bodybuilder and manager of a General Nutrition Center.

Woods and Wilber, who met four years ago in an acting class, talk with the enthusiasm of new homeowners about their plans to revitalize this most macabre of attractions, first opened as a B&B in 1996.

With a few modifications, Woods says, he can vastly expand the appeal -- and bottom line -- of the house where Abby Borden was gored in the head and then left face-down on the floor of the guest bedroom in August 1892, while her husband, Andrew, was chopped 11 times and left on the sofa, as if he was taking a summer nap.

''I don't get excited about blood and guts, or blood and brains in this case," he says. ''I want to get toward treating the family with respect and learn more about what happened. I keep calling it an American family tragedy."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/06/21/starbucks_in_lizzies_house/

[Loonman]

1. Lizzie Borden took an ax

Lizzie Borden took an ax

And gave her mother forty whacks.

When she saw what she had done

She gave her father forty-one!

[supernova]

2. Um ... why?

That's just creepy, inside the house.

I certainly wouldn't be thinking about a refreshing cuppa java visiting that place.

[Susang]

3. Why would they want to put a Starbucks in a filmmaker's home?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001962/

:evilgrin:

[Beware the Beast Man]

4. Typical corporate Repuke bullshit

Make the Lizzie Borden legacy safe for families, and start a franchise coffee bar all in one! 2 birds with 1 stone!
What's next- turning the Holocaust Museum into a Disney Attraction-slash-McDonald's Kiosk?

These people make me fucking sick :puke:

[Snow]

7. Starbucks doesn't do franchises.....

and this guy can't get one where he wants just by talking about it or even by thinking he can buy a franchise.

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. Agreed, but

it's the whole idea of putting a corporate foodservice franchise in a building that may be an historic landmark that disgusts me.

[DS1]

5. You can't get hacked to death if you feed your kids enough caffeine

:shrug:

[Loonman]

6. You can't chop your daddy up in Massachusetts!

What do you think this is? New York?

[hlthe2b]

9. Maybe they should go for a "Benihanas"

:evilgrin:

[MallRat]

11. CLASSIC!

Better yet, maybe a mohel could open an office there?

-MR

[Bluebear]

10. Lizzie Borden took a Latte