--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED],
>
>
> In reference to your comment:
>
> I may be one of the only ones on this board who actually live in town (for
> over 45 years)...been though the good and bad..
>
> I can match those credentials very closely.but have a different take.
> Re:
> .just a question for you gary...have you ever paid property taxes or rented
> a home in asbury? yea thats what i thought...you sure do have alot to say
> for
> an OUT OF TOWNER!!! please dont say WE when you talk about asbury anymore,
> it is an insult to the LONGTIME tax payers here...sam 8th ave resident
>
>
> I've often appreciated critiques from non-residents and ex-residents (not
> the white "flighters" though), especially when their comments show some
> vision
> for what AP could be or a fond remembrance of what it once was; when I hear
> them say "we," I understand the connection and am not insulted.
> On the other hand, I sense that some long time residents became jaded or
> cynical because of all the false starts and were limited by a sense of deja
> vu.
> Seems to me that a lot of the renewed energy and passion in the past several
> years came mostly from the so-called "newbies" or "carpetbaggers" who
> didn't have that much baggage.
> Re:
>
> .i voted for loffredo, sanders, and bruno and i will continue to vote for
> them until they are through with the job they started 6 years ago..
>
> We also share the same voting record. One of the above is a personal
> friend. The other two I do not know personally, but at least one of them
> seems to
> have gone to the Appalachia School of Public Relations. (No offense to any
> Appalachians here for that stereotype :-) ) All three might want to
> reconsider
> if they really benefit from being allied with the "pen" of a certain
> columnist.
>
> Re:
>
>
> it does not suprise me, you are full of Sh#&y ideas...when are you going to
> learn that nobody is listening to you and thank god that they are not..
>
> The Trenton vision sounded pretty creative to me. Whether anything
> visionary can be completed here is yet to be seen. So I'll be listening
> while I keep
> "uncle's" advice in mind.
>
>
>
>
> "My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare.
>
> And when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare . . .
>
> Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom as he sat there on that chair:
>
> "To eat these things," said my uncle, "you must exercise great care.
> You may swallow down what's solid . . .
>
>
> BUT . . . you must spit out the air!"
>
> And . . . as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good
> advice to follow.
>
> Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
> And be careful what you swallow."
>
>
>
>
>
> Cordiali saluti,
>
> ========Original Message========
>
> Subj: [AsburyPark] Re: Redevelopment News Date: 11/4/2006 3:53:52 A.M.
> Eastern Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com) Sent on:
>
>
>
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com) ,
> Lightgrw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > There was some big redevelopment news in the newspaper last week!
> >
> > An entertainment district featuring a $40 million, 100,000 square foot
> > complex; a four-story, 700-car parking garage; restaurants, bars and
> > clubs including the following who have supposedly signed leases: Red
> > Cheetah, a martini bar and dance club; Southside Johnny's Tavern (a pub
> > associated with NJ musician Southside Johnny); King Biscuit Cafe (a
> > home-style restaurant that will have a radio studio for the
> > performances of the national radio show King Biscuit Flour Hour);
> > Toad's Place (major music venue); Wet Willie's Daiquiri Bar; B.B.
> > King's Blues Cafe; and Funny Bone Comedy Club. This goes along with
> > the creation of 99 new apartments.
> >
> > Unfortunately. Unfortunately.<WBR>.. this redevelopment
> >
> > While it may never see the light of day either - does anyone else
> > wonder why it's taking so long for "names" to be tacked on to the
> > boardwalk projects? And why isn't there a Southside Johnny Tavern in
> > Asbury Park???? For about a decade his band's name was on a sign above
> > the Stone Pony entrance (remember - the home of the Asbury Jukes?)
> >
> > Oh well... I guess I can root for this to happen. It's nice to see at
> > least one city in New Jersey trying to be a destination place. While I
> > know firsthand that Trenton still has a stigma to its name (I just
> > wasted a day with a booth at a supposedly statewide festival there a
> > few weeks ago) I believe that if you put entertainment, restaurants and
> > convenient parking ANYWHERE you can make it work. The Sovereign Bank
> > Arena has proven that people will come to that area and I bet this will
> > work too if the project actually happens.
> >
> > Why should Asbury care? Because this is the kind of thing that could
> > bring people to the city to spend money and it's something that would
> > create jobs in the city.
>
> gary, are you kidding me? southside johnny cafe? you wanna make southside
> the man
> himself puke? dont you remember the rising fiasco? bruce wrote a letter to
> the tri-city
> asking the people in charge of the city and redevelopment to kindly not name
> any streets,
> statues, bars,cafes, or hotdog stands after him or his songs. do you realize
> that bruce and
> southside are the streets of asbury, no nead to pay touristy homage to
> them...but it does
> not suprise me, you are full of Sh#&y ideas...when are you going to learn
> that nobody is
> listening to you and thank god that they are not...i for one could not be
> happier with the
> direction of the redevelopment and I may be one of the only ones on this
> board who
> actually live in town (for over 45 years)...been though the good and bad...i
> voted for
> loffredo, sanders, and bruno and i will continue to vote for them until they
> are through
> with the job they started 6 years ago...just a question for you gary...have
> you ever paid
> property taxes or rented a home in asbury? yea thats what i thought...you
> sure do have
> alot to say for an OUT OF TOWNER!!! please dont say WE when you talk about
> asbury
> anymore, it is an insult to the LONGTIME tax payers here...
> sam
> 8th ave resident
> >
> >
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