Thats a great story.... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Nov 22, 2004 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UC] Arcade at the Bridge
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/22/2004 10:22:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Robert Redford did one really constructive thing at 40th & Walnut: he looked across the street from the theater site and said, "Is that a Carnagie library?" Who would have guessed that he was a preservationist? It turned out that he knew about the philanthropist's libraries and really liked them. It slowed the attempts of the powers-that-were to get rid of the library - wouldn't want to offend Robert Redford while he was doing his project across the street - and helped the Friends of Walnut West eventually prevail in their attempts to restore, rather than relocate, the library.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Not only that, but while my good buddy Redford was in town, I took him and Judy out for drinks at the old Gojjo. We were walking down Baltimore and he commented, "You know, this could be a really hip and trendy neighborhood. Just needs a few more coffee shops and maybe an upscale lingerie boutique." After a few margaritas we came back to my place for some hashish. I saw a side of Judy I had never known before. She was like practically raving: "Hip and trendy, hip and trendy, waaaaagh!" We were playing the Macarena on the stereo and damned if she didn't know all the words. Man, she was shaking her hips. She was all over Redford; if I hadn't been there with my gentle restraining influence she would have screwed him right there on the sofa.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyhow, the rest is history. After Judy sobered up, she suddenly had this brainstorm about gentrifying the Hood, and the rest is history.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <P align=center><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Ross Bender<BR><A href="http://rossbender.org/gentrification.html";>http://rossbender.org/gentrification.html</A></FONT></P> <P align=center><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"> </P></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
