Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Downtown/District

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Nathan Odle wrote:

> That gets a BIG laugh.
> 
> I, for one, have been thinking that "The District" and the way
> they've tried to promote it sounds awfully pretentious.

To heck with pretentious; it's just STUpid.   Honestly, there is no 
ambiguity about where Downtown Columbia is, and anybody who asks or 
has seen the place knows that it is where the greatest concentration 
of bars, restaurants, and non-mall shopping is.  Unlike in many 
cities, I have not really heard any negative connotations about 
Columbia's downtown.  (OK, so the intersection of Providence and 
Broadway isn't much, but the payday loans place is now slated 
to get bull-dozered for a turning lane, so even that's on the way 
up.

But it's too late now to do much about this except feed the idea to 
an editorial cartoonist; they already went out and did a logo, and 
shopping bags, and window stickers and...geesh.

Now speaking of funky downtowns, have any of you seen Sedalia?  A 
bizarre mix of bombed out and Bohemian, and they have a Russian 
grocery store on the main street (does anybody know why?).   If you 
haven't seen it, think Boonville only ten times larger but also 
including places that aren't pawnshops or bail-bondsmen.

jking

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