New York City listen to me right now if you're near a convenience store right now, any type of 24-hour store, go into the store right now and put your hand in the cash register for no reason. Their money is your money as of right now
Mitchell Robinson, when asked if he would be making the picture of him dunking on Embiid his phone background, said he would not because “It don’t got no truck in it.”
Those magnificent structures on the top were all over America in the 90s thanks to volunteers.
Almost no one knows the name Bob Leathers but they should.
He grew up in Maine, studied architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, and landed in Ithaca raising kids. In 1970 his children's elementary school needed a playground. He organized the parents to build one. That weekend reorganized the rest of his life.
He founded Leathers and Associates a few years later. The product was a four-day community build. The town raised the money, the kids drew the design, and 500 to 2,000 volunteers showed up with hammers and built the entire castle.
Materials cost $10,000 to $60,000. Donated labor was worth multiples of that. The Washington Post called it a "burgeoning movement" in 1982. Mister Rogers filmed an episode at one of his builds in 1986. Sesame Street did the same. The Chicago Tribune called him "the guru of contemporary playground design" in 1989.
His firm coordinated more than 3,400 playgrounds across the United States, Israel, and Australia. An entire generation of American kids climbed turrets, crossed rope bridges, and disappeared into wooden tunnels designed by a guy in upstate New York who took his cues from their drawings.
He never franchised the model. He never sold the firm. His son Marc runs it today, still in Ithaca, still doing community builds.
The bottom picture is what the market built when nobody was there to organize the volunteers.