A Conversation for 30 Hours in Hooverville: A Novel Experiment
You've put all the best places near each other
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Oct 14, 2019
Guests staying at the River Pirates Inn can mosey down the street to browse in the china shop and the book store, then continue to the Waffelhaus for scrumptious comfort food.
Hooverville, where have you been hiding all my life?
You've put all the best places near each other
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 14, 2019
The older ones often did. Compact downtown areas are great for people who like to have everything within walking distance.
You've put all the best places near each other
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 14, 2019
That's definitely true. There's lots of stuff on Main Street: the bookshop, the cafe, an old department store, the ancient inn that is still a restaurant, the tattoo place around the corner (and opposite the courthouse, near the Magritte mural the high school kids put up), the tutoring place for kids, the public library, the post office, the town arts centre, etc, etc.
I lived in a town in North Carolina for awhile that had a downtown like that - but it was practically abandoned. All the businesses had moved down the road to the strip malls, which was sad. I was often nearly alone shopping the little stores. There were some Korean ladies who had a wig shop - great place to get stuff for community theatre.
One reason was the locals' terror of parallel parking.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 14, 2019
You've put all the best places near each other
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