Q: When Is Mambo Movers Not Mambo Movers? A: When Some Jerk In Brooklyn Steals Their Whole Concept
Do us a favor: Read this New York Times article about “a moving company [...] that employs, exclusively, artists, musicians, writers and other creative types whose passions seem similarly incongruous with the hard, sweat-inducing labor associated with moving furniture around” and tell us how it’s not about Philly’s beloved Mambo Movers. We’ll tell you how: Some guy who went to school here — Shawn Lyons is his name — brain-drained himself outta Philly a few years ago and started up a company just like Mambo, and now, he’s in the Times, frontin’ like he INVENTED the idea of having sweaty band dudes move your shit around. And he’s not even giving them credit for the idea! Bad form, ex-Philadelphian, bad form. When in fact, Mambo’s whole deal — laid out plainly in their company manifesto — has been getting happy customers in and out of new homes for LONGER THAN THERE HAS BEEN AN INTERNET! We’re calling bullshit, Brooklyn. Also, please stop moving here. It’s bad enough as it is.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Dude lived in a hobbit hole for three years? How whimsical/fucking annoying.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
And here I thought it would take more than six months to find someone kadier than Kade.
Shame on me.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Too bad NYT doesn’t have a comment section for articles like this, they should be bombed by philly peeps calling this guy out.
August 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
C’mon, you can’t hate on this guy too bad for reinventing the whole starving-artist-as-movers concept as i’m pretty sure it’s been around for all of time everywhere. but yeah, some sort of props are due to MAMBO for holding it down with the sweetest logo and name! My question is what were BK kids using prior to this dude, Bekins?
August 25th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Some douchebag starving-artist-as-mover from Mambo stole my amp a few years ago. Disappeared with the truck for a half an hour while “trying” to find the storage space, which was 5 blocks from my house. I didn’t notice the amp was gone until I came back to Philly a year and half later and unloaded the storage space and found it missing. Even tipped them nicely and bought them lunch. NY can have them.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Didn’t notice for a year and a half? C’mon. How can you prove it was even them?