On 2/25/2013 2:40 PM, DZDub wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Moose has happy teeth. He's obviously in California.
Much more than his teeth are happy on/in The Moose
> Now Ken, you can't rightly expect folks who live in spectacular cities like
> Omaha or Kansas City not to make fun of Iowa or Indiana if you keep making
> little digs at California.
I spent about 5 days in Omaha and a couple of 5 days stints in KC in the mid
70s. At that time, they were vastly
different from each other. Omaha was quiet and pleasant, but not much there. I
found KC to be much more interesting. Of
course, staying at the Raphael, just across the creek from Country Club Plaza,
is hardly a fair comparison to an
undifferentiated hotel at a freeway interchange in Omaha. But then, as as far
as I could tell, there wasn't anything
close to comparable in Omaha.
I imagine things have changed. Like every older, mid-sized city, I suppose
Omaha has taken an old part of town and
replaced the empty store fronts and the surviving tired, boring businesses with
new restaurants, bars, shops, boutiques,
salons, and so on, put in new sidewalks with old look lighting and street
trees, maybe pedestrianized a couple.
Those 'old towns' are nice enough, and much more so than what they replaced,
but all seem so the same that, absent the
old signs used as decor in the bars and restaurants, one would be hard pressed
to say where one is. Oh yeah, the tourist
T-shirts and tchotchkes have different names on them.
> Every place has its palaces and its dumps, its attractive and unattractive
> features and places.
Chez Moose is both at once. Wonderful location, distinctly pedestrian building,
although comfy, lots of deferred
(ignored) maintenance.
> Every photographer ought to know this instinctively.
>
> ;^) ;^)
Rant Mode cancels out common sense. ;-)
V. Happy Moose
> Joel (I don't really think Omaha and Kansas City are spectacular, but I
> like them) W.
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