You knew it was a bad idea when you saw her in the parking lot.
So now they have hundreds of designers, architects, urban developers and planners to come in and give their opinion of what the new Coast will look like. They have good ideas about it, but the thing that caught me off guard was something they (the developers or whoever) said. It was something along the lines of it is going to be a nice place to live, but we have to make sure the poor people can live here, too. Talk about fine dining, casinos, attractions, new commerce, and it is all coming from an upper middle class white guy. I don’t see too many minorities on the Boards. As nice as The Coast sounds like it will be, they are forgetting the majority of the people here.
We are ready for change. We are ready to rebuild. Careful, while you are in one of your many meetings about what to do with The Coast, we might go out there and just do it. It’ll be done when you get out.
I have mixed feelings about it. I want The Coast to be everything it can be, but we want it to be like it was, and it will never be that way again. We were comfortable with its inconsistency.
I will admit that the talk of public transportation along The Coast, and Long Beach being more pedestrian friendly gets me a little excited. (In a giddy, hopeful way.)
I saw the first train since the storm today. I heard one a couple of weeks ago, but seeing it made it more real. Everyone in the drug store looked outside and stopped to watch it go by, like they had never seen a train before.
Shannon and I were out this afternoon and got behind a Dodge truck. In the bed of this Dodge truck was a stack of three or four mattresses. The mattresses were bungied together, but I am not sure if they were attached to the truck in anyway. On top of the mattresses was a woman on her stomach holding the mattresses down. She was half on the mattresses and half holding on to the truck. This is why I don't want to drive.
Posted by jessab at October 15, 2005 06:33 PM