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Downtown Tello's bites the dust

Tello's shut

The Downtown Boston BID reports the Washington Street clothing store has joined that great pedestrian mall in the sky.

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They got their info from me.

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Remember the Tello's on Border street , East Boston the wooden spiral steps , 1978 /1979 The Disco music playing in the store, The Jordache jeans, The Clipper jeans (comes with a clipper) and The Sicily jeans.. Originally Vitello's but shorten to Tello's, I may be wrong but that's what I knew back then.

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That Tello's is still there on Border St! Crazy, tiny club clothes that the locals think are just fine for the supermarket or the prom.

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And to this day I can still hear my mother: "Sixty dollars for a pair of jeans, are you out of your fucking mind?" They were standard issue at Revere High in the seventies, along with those first Nike's with the red swoosh.

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Tee-hee, I think $60 is still a lot for a pair of jeans, but then again I buy mom jeans from LLBean.

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Jordache Jeans! OMG, I wanted a pair of those sosossososososososos bad, and when I finally got them, well, it was a special day indeed.

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Wow. I used to walk by here when I worked in Downtown Crossing and could not believe that this place was still open. With all of the now building, it will probably become a high end shop in no time soon.

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Nah, there's one still in the Ghetto Meadow Mall (their headquarters).

Actually this picture is old, there's a sign now says "Coming soon, Men's Warehouse" in the window. I was just walking by there yesterday and saw it.

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according to their website at least. Of course, that could be out of date, since it also still lists the Downtown Crossing store.

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The question is how exactly they lasted THIS long. Tellos is the Radio Shack of clothing stores.

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now that Tello's has closed?

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Brought my first silk shirt there. Amazed it was still open.

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That shirt is still open? I'm amazed, too.

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So of course it's still open!

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Otherwise, how could anyone see your manly chest hair or two?

Not to mention that it provides ample space for enough gold chains to cause neck strain injury!

IMAGE(http://www.crazyforcostumes.com/ProdImages/3564.jpg)

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Sweats by Ebe

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...Chess King.

RIP, '70s.

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I believe I got my prom dress at Tello's - I remember it was a baby blue polyester number that matched my then boyfriends baby blue tux with the ruffles. Looking back now we looked like something out of Napoleon Dynamite.

I miss the local chains (Decelle's), I guess now it's all national chain department stores, how bland.

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I remember going there with my best friend shopping getting nice clothes loud music and not paying a lot of money like the big dept stores that take advantage of you. BRING TELLOS BACK !!!!!!!! Come on America learn from your past to build the future.

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