It’s sad to say, but themed businesses are really on the way out, if not already extinct. Back in the boomtime, El Rancho Pottery cared enough to maintain their Mexican theme by putting cacti in the front garden of their otherwise drab Porter Street location. Think about that – a pottery barn went the whole enchilada so to speak, and established a theme – an old west atmosphere in which to buy garden products. They cared. Hell, they even cared enough to set up on Porter Street in the off chance some dork would one day make a tenuous connection between the words Porter and pottery. Does Pure Flow care enough to draw in customers with so much as a fountain? A water feature? One of those water coolers? No.
Yet El Rancho is the past life here. It just doesn’t add up.
Then again, water does rhyme with Porter…
Past/Lives of the Near Future 
Thats the stupidest thing i’ve ever read ! as the daughter and sister of the owners of El Rancho Garden Pots (and I also worked there) I can tell you that it was NEVER a themed business as you like to call it. You obviously never went there, old west atmosphere ? gee how did I not ever notice. And whats the connection with Porter and pottery ?