This is the current window display for the downtown Oakland Sears on the corner of Broadway and Thomas L. Berkeley Way. These displays always seem to have some intended meaning that has nothing to do with retail. For example, the display pictured above shows a male mannequin in slumped in a king’s throne with obvious injuries to his head and a missing hand. (The other display I have a picture of also plays with dismemberment). Beside him is a tool chest containing power tools ready to use and the gentleman’s trappings such as dress shirt and tie. Perhaps the power tools and the hammer were used to take down the patriarch. The background is a hyperbolic ribbon of blood made from draped red cloth. Click on the picture for a better view.
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This display is clearly the work of the Feminist Window Display Liberation Front (FWDLF). Nice work, ladies!
dude! what is UP with those Sears displays?
Ever since I moved to Oakland, I’ve been wondering.
I’m so glad you blogged it.
At first,due to the hideo state of their exterior, I figured they were closed…for, like, six months.
Then, finally, upon realizing they were viable, I laughed…then walked in and bought a cute shirt and a fabulous pair of striped cotton capris with sweet button details that would have cost four times as much at J. Crew!
I get compliments on them, and a shocked expression when I tell my admirers they’re from Sears!
But, still, REALLY, what’s UP with those window displays? Are they trying to bring the whole thing down? Is Sears actually owned by a subterranean group of artists who have hidden their identity all these years just to pull off this extreme act of subversion via window display in the new “Uptown Oakland”? Perhaps!
In that case, brilliant sleuthing, Agent Hudson!
Looks like a crime scene to me. Wow…only in Oakland, lol!!