The decor, such as it is, dates back to its founding in the early 1900s and doesn't add up to much more than mirrors interspersed with Gothic columns and a pale tiled floor.

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"gothic, " whether "neo-" or otherwise, isn't a descriptor common in earlier iterations of the boutique model.

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Here Merritt salutes the Gothic Archies army while urging prospective fans to increase their hipness by buying one of band's t-shirts.

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