Evolution in action really doesn't do it for people to explain changes in a neighborhood where they have lived since they were kids and it will break Cadillac Man's heart if you tear down a soda fountain. At this minute he's headed for Savannah, GA, where Johnny Mercer wrote "Tutti Fruitti" and, yes, that was at the soda fountain where Tutti Fruitti ice cream was invented. It exists to this day after being rebuilt. I'm tellin' you, tear down the last of these soda fountains and you will break his heart. (Food & Wine: Leopold’s Ice Cream; Savannah, GA)
The trouble here, see, is a Time Warp but lots of people want to do the Time Warp again.
Note: geez, I haven't seen that in years (larfs). Mystery Lady introduced me to the Horror, lo these many years ago.
There's oh the tragedy in Brooklyn due to gentrification, the steamroller of evolutionary death in any established neighborhood. Oh, no, what will we do, what will we do. (The Guardian: The last battle for Brooklyn, America's most unaffordable place to buy a home)
Actually, there's nothing you will do because the gentry will keep coming and they will buy Brooklyn. Complaining about how the gentry only has superficial and transitory interests is pointless since the gentry has always been that way. Keep them amused and they will usually stay out of your hair but you're screwed if they want what you've got.
However, there's part of the evolutionary equation missing. While Brooklyn gets gentrified, somewhere else is headed the other direction and that's where people can do a mini-gentrification of their own to prevent the other area from descending into complete chaos. The failed expectation is that anywhere stays the same and you know that's hardly ever true. It's lamentable that the old Brooklyn neighborhoods will become something else since they provided a prototype across the nation but, even when it's not palatable, it's still evolution in action.
Leopold's Ice Cream actually lives through a form of gentrification since someone booted a bunch of money into it to make the soda fountain a happening thing in the 21st Century. It would otherwise likely have faded away in much the same way as Brooklyn is likely to go although there will also likely be some valiant efforts to save landmarks in the same way.
Evolution in action ... we can either roll with it ... or ... let's do the Time Warp agai-ay-ay-ay-ain.
The trouble here, see, is a Time Warp but lots of people want to do the Time Warp again.
Note: geez, I haven't seen that in years (larfs). Mystery Lady introduced me to the Horror, lo these many years ago.
There's oh the tragedy in Brooklyn due to gentrification, the steamroller of evolutionary death in any established neighborhood. Oh, no, what will we do, what will we do. (The Guardian: The last battle for Brooklyn, America's most unaffordable place to buy a home)
Actually, there's nothing you will do because the gentry will keep coming and they will buy Brooklyn. Complaining about how the gentry only has superficial and transitory interests is pointless since the gentry has always been that way. Keep them amused and they will usually stay out of your hair but you're screwed if they want what you've got.
However, there's part of the evolutionary equation missing. While Brooklyn gets gentrified, somewhere else is headed the other direction and that's where people can do a mini-gentrification of their own to prevent the other area from descending into complete chaos. The failed expectation is that anywhere stays the same and you know that's hardly ever true. It's lamentable that the old Brooklyn neighborhoods will become something else since they provided a prototype across the nation but, even when it's not palatable, it's still evolution in action.
Leopold's Ice Cream actually lives through a form of gentrification since someone booted a bunch of money into it to make the soda fountain a happening thing in the 21st Century. It would otherwise likely have faded away in much the same way as Brooklyn is likely to go although there will also likely be some valiant efforts to save landmarks in the same way.
Evolution in action ... we can either roll with it ... or ... let's do the Time Warp agai-ay-ay-ay-ain.
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And the 21st Century was saved--the theatre
Sure was and the gentrifiers bring a mixed situation since maybe they will turn that old-style deli into a disco but they don't destroy everything and some of the coolest stuff like the 20th Century survives. We just don't always agree on what stuff is the coolest.
I hope he leaves a toy for lil Gracie Watson
I had no idea who she was so Google makes the save. Incredible how a story like that will survive even when it's end to end tragedy. The sculpture of her must be a remarkable piece of work and so much love all around to create it in the first place.
That whole cemetery is pretty cool. The princess loved seeing it and it was very important to leave a rock and a toy once she learned the history and tradition
Fantastic city in the center with a small square park in the center of intersections every few blocks. Awesome walking tour very rich history in thise blocks
Walking tours are usually the things humans like the most and I think because we can be as highly-sociable as we like in talking with our crew while also experiencing fantastic things at an excellent pace. For as much as people toy with electronics, there's nothing we enjoy so much as a good walk, particularly with a little girl who learns something new with every step. I know almost nothing about taking walks like that with little girls but it does seem quite a marvelous thing.
It was but that was in another life
It's amazing how many we traverse as we wander along and I'd be highly thankful to have that one.
Alas they dont let you go back.
Hopefully she will be the same little princess albiet older when I am allowed to contiune those adventures with her
Sometimes it's the worst that we can't go back ... but then there's seeing her graduate from college. Fark!
Hopefully things will ease long before then.
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