Unfortunately, the businesses you talk about are not 'pretty' and might even be 'dirty'. Sometimes it seems that all the planners feel the only stores in town should be coffee shops or sell aroma therapy candles. The planners must live in the suburbs and get their cars and such fixed out there.
Anne McCandless Jordan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Steller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:36 PM Subject: [Mpls] I live for muffler failure and tread wear ... > ... because if I go to one of the specialty auto service places on East Lake > Street, I can skip the while-u-wait complimentary coffee and walk to Hymie's > used records, where my time and money are always well spent. > > I wasted time and money last weekend going to St. Paul and the Megamall for > Sears vacuum cleaner bags. They were out both places. Maplewood and > Brookdale and some suburbs I've never been to had the bags in stock, but I > couldn't drag myself out there. Why did Sears in Minneapolis close? A new > Sears store there would be a great re-use. Vacuum cleaner bagwise, > Minneapolis is a cold Sears Omaha. > > If you have to leave the city for your goods and services, this is more like > it: a half-block into St. Paul on Franklin Avenue, you can get a tire fixed > or a used rear view mirror at Prospect Auto Parts. A funkier yard or main > office you could not want, and the upstairs waiting room has art and IWW > literature. The place will close forever at the end of April, so hurry in > and get that slow leak fixed. > > Chris Steller > Nicollet Island-East Bank > who misses the wheat-gold and silo-silver of the earlier version now that > the new Guthrie design is an all-blue affair. > > > > > > TEMPORARY REMINDER: > 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. > 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. > > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
