… was Il Hwa Korean Ginseng?
Special thanks to diebmx, who added this — quite possibly the world’s greatest picture — to the Detroit Bad Boys photo pool on Flickr. Words can’t express how badly I want this thing framed and hanging on the wall of my office. I asked diebmx where he found it, and he replied with this:
I found that poster on a small chinese convenience store around Canal Street in NYC. They had that at street level behind a huge glass and it was by night so that was the best i could do with my camera and some photoshop editing. They had the other poster besides, the one of the stress of narcotics (my next picture on the stream) so that was quite surrealistic.
I don’t know, i was a big lakers fan when I was a kid and I hated the bad boys when they won the first title ring against them. Once I grew up i started to really understand the greatness of these Pistons.
And now i’m a devoted fan!
Check this picture, is the same one, taken in the same place by someone other. It seems that there is only a copy of that poster in the whole world…
From the other link, this store appears to be on Mott and Bayard — anyone in NYC know where that is? Has anyone ever seen this poster before, and better yet, does anyone out there have a lead on how I can get my hands on one?
Mott and Bayard is the heart of China Town. If it doesn’t rain all weekend I’ll go on the hunt for this and see what’s up with it.
Stop at New Green Bo on Bayard (take a left if you’re heading south on Mott, it’s on the left side of the street kind of across from the ice cream shop) afterward and get some crab and pork soup dumplings. You won’t regret it, and I’ll be super jealous.
oh my god. i almost stole that poster when i saw it in chinatown in november. then i tried to convince my companion to go in and ask if i could buy it. really, truly amazing, and insane that it ended up on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys.
Very happy to see that my picture has created this kind of hype.
Keep me posted if someone else can bring more light info this mysterious affair of the microwave’s korean dope.
Vinnie was always a big health food guy, and I remember articles from the 80s where he talked very enthusiastically about ginseng. So yeah, he really believed in the product.
Wow! I have a version of this poster hanging on my wall in Brooklyn. I found it in L.A. of all places, circa 1993, in the window of a presumably Korean-owned convenience store, where after I don’t know how many years in the bright sunlight it had faded to the point that the image was barely visible. Still, how could I not recognize the Microwave?? I ran into the store and succeeded in persuading the manager to part with the poster for $5. Mine has a white background and different text….or else that’s just what the sun did to it….