Julie Know's Beauty

[Coman]

Taking the bus replacement from ED station today, I noted the shop towards the top of Walworth Road with the poetic title "Julie Know's Beauty." As in 'Well regarded for your good taste, this is something that you, Julie, know is beauty.'

I wanted to share the eccentric, lyrical sounding shop name

[Sue]

Well, it's certainly more lyrical than the late lamented "Rim World", a hat shop also on Walworth Road.

It's still there, but now known as "Hat World".

Bus journeys in that direction are much the poorer :))

[stacker285]

I miss Noodels at the camberwell junction. That typo kept me entertained for years, until someone changed it to Noodles, one sign at a time over a year. When giving people directions to my flat, I'd always give them Noodels as a landmark. Noodels should be said in the same way as Rydel High (of Grease fame) for example. Gutted.

[edcam]

My favourite was always the wig shop on the Walworth Rd called "Best of Your Choice".

[Alec John Moore]

I remember Wicker and Gear on the Walworth Road from many years ago. I seem to remember a take away in Nottingham that sold donor kebabs and then there was the hairdresser named Atmosp'Hair or similar.

[dukesdenver]

Don't forget the Mixed Blessings Bakery, just a few doors down from Hatsworld.

[civilservant]

Coman Wrote:

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> Taking the bus replacement from ED station today,

> I noted the shop towards the top of Walworth Road

> with the poetic title "Julie Know's Beauty."

You do miss a lot of local colour by taking the train.

I don't know about poetic, but Julie Knows Beauty has at least one other branch, on the Walworth Road. On the same road, you'll also find Michael Leigh's Beefy Boys men's clothing shop

[PeckhamRose]

As someone who rides around a lot of London, I can tell you there are quite a few branches of Julia Know's Beauty if not her punctuation. One is in Fulham. R Soles in the Kings Road still brings a childlike grin.

[MrBen]

Walworth Road has some of the best non-descript or overly literal shop names anywhere in london.

My current favourites:

- Food City

- Afro World Superstore

- The Best Kebab

[Ted Max]

I feel Coman is only telling half the story here and has deliberately quoted the sunshades out of context for comic effect. What a heartless b*stard.

http://i45.tinypic.com/11t1uev.jpg

[Huguenot]

Still funny

[edcam]

My other favourites were the 2 shops in Rye Lane for the larger lady called "BIG GIRL" and "NICE 'N' WIDE".

[giantbears]

Favourite Walworth Road shops have to be: Mixed Blessings Bakery and Michael Leigh's Beefy Boys (a clothing shop for large men)

[the-e-dealer]

Silver Fish Chinese _ Gibbon Road Delicious.

[Coman]

Ted Max Wrote:

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> I feel Coman is only telling half the story here

> and has deliberately quoted the sunshades out of

> context for comic effect. What a heartless

> b*stard.

>

> http://i45.tinypic.com/11t1uev.jpg

In response, I distinctly remember the shop name, Julie Know's Beauty. However checking Google Maps it seems I can only find the same store you have found.

I suspect that the shop owners started with the name Julia Knows Beauty and altered the name, perhaps in the hope that the deliberate misspelling would attract more business to the shop. This would be a careful guess.

To recap on my first post, I have included the words "Julie Know's Beauty" in a context where these words make sense, and I found the resulting sentence to sound fun and lyrical. I appreciate that the shop name could simply be wrong punctuation, but on closer analysis, I established that this may not be the only possibility.

I would like to commend the shop, even though I have no vested interest in it, for creating a noticeable name, and for nonethless creating a name which adheres to grammar.

I can appreciate how you thought I may have made the shop name up, however this is not the case. All the same, please let me know the reason that you consider me to be 'heartless b*stard."

Ray Coman

[red devil]

It's spelt know's on the awning...

[Coman]

Further to my last post, I can let you know that underneath the "Julia Knows Beauty" shop sign is the name "Julia Know's Beauty" on the shop awning. A clearer picture can be viewed here:

[Huguenot]

I think it was a joke Ray ;-)

I can't work out a way in which both approaches could be simultaneously grammatically correct?

If her name was Julia Know, then the apostrophe would work, but the lack of one would not.

However I suspect it's just an imperfect conjugation of the verb 'to know' for the third person singular.

If it was a sales and marketing strategy it was a poor one, since the deliberate error would only appeal to grammar pedants whose obsession with words suggests that like me they're no oil painting.

[Ted Max]

"has deliberately quoted the sunshades out of context for comic effect"

This bit was probably the clue that you needed that a) I was already aware of the alternative usage on the awning. b) i was only pissing about.

[the-e-dealer]

I know Miss Know and she is Beautiful.

[maxxi]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> I think it was a joke Ray ;-)

>

> I can't work out a way in which both approaches

> could be simultaneously grammatically correct?

>

> If her name was Julia Know, then the apostrophe

> would work, but the lack of one would not.

Unless the larger (non-awning) 'title' was intended as an informal 'first-name-basis' declaration of what Julia does, indeed, know and the awning statement (hereinafter referred to as the second 'conning') a description of what can be found in the windows o'ershadowed by said awnings and, this time, giving Julia's full name and deciding that her products were such as could be described as her 'beauty'.

There is a bucket of scallions round the back bearing the legend Julia Know's Her Onions which is a whole other kettle of fish.

[Alec John Moore]

Speaking of food. Just noticed Meat N Meat in the shopping centre at E&C. It sells meat, apparently.

[the-e-dealer]

Sign next to Dog Lead hook in Brighton. Dog's only.

[ad2000]

Not a sign from ED, but from my student days in Glasgow - children's clothing shop called "Wean's World". Still makes me smile....

[civilservant]

Julia is very knowing indeed. As far as I can see, she knows (know's?) in Croydon http://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1170/118601.php, in Sheffield http://www.citikey.co.uk/display/julia-knows-TGD15 and in Manchester http://www.thomsonlocal.com/Julia%20Knows%20Beauty/0241491205800703000/companyinfo.html, and also on-line http://juliacosmetics.com/contactus.php