Hey there and welcome to the Bowry Boys, my name is Greg Young, Tom is still away this

week.

I'm going to be back soon, I swear, so I will just have to be dazzle you with this

podcast this week.

I will be waxing on and we'll only make one more pun waxing on about the glittery

gem of the New York luxury world, Tiffany and company for those of you regular listeners.

Some of the twists and turns in the fate of Tiffany's parallel those of another successful

19th century business owner, which we've talked about in this podcast, Roland Macy, who ended

up revolutionizing shopping with his Macy's stores, Tiffany's of course caters to a more

upper crust clientele and focuses exclusively on jewelry and watches and will just basically

anything really that needs to be bathed in diamonds and gold.

So coming up, I'll give you some rather starling facts, which include the kind of bloody

role Tiffany's played on the battlefields of the Civil War, a disastrous diamond scandal.

It's always about scandals with me, isn't it?

Scan a diamond scandal that almost damaged their reputation forever.

And the reason why you probably associate the name Tiffany with glass, not gold.

And oh yes, the little blue box, why is it blue?

Plus I'll veer off sort of near the end and look at the book and the movie that Tiffany's

inspired breakfast at Tiffany's by Trim and Capote.

So get out your charge cards as we do a priceless bit of window shopping at Tiffany and company.

The current location of Tiffany's is of course on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, one of

New York City's finest and most well known retail establishments.

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