Listers,
It begins. Yesterday a man with an air hammer made some little test
drills. True to form, the chandelier in the dining room shook and one
light bulb gave up the ghost, so to speak. Today, a truck about 80ft.
long parked on Oakland with a load of yellow pipe. A huge roll of yellow
pipe was sitting smack in the middle of C&J motors/towing driveway. I'm
sure Jerry Hamilton loved that!
The early signs were detours of the buses--21, 5, 53, 9, ?--onto 31st.
St., people standing around on 31st--legitimately. Temporary bus stops
run across 31st.
Now we have to begin watching which way the dealers and prostitutes,
junkies and hangers on are going to move. Hangers on includes people
fencing hot goods, pick pockets and cut purses, wannabes and
usedtowases. They range in age from about 8 or 9 to roughly 65. There
are also the "summer prostitutes" who will be moving into the area. I've
seen them West of 4th Av., they'll be getting pushed. There are at least
3 or 4 pimps in the immediate area at any given hour of the day.
Immediate area to me means roughly Chicago to 35W. There is a somewhat
different profile east of Chicago, but it is similar in many ways.
I was forcefully reminded by Muriel Simmons that, in this immediate
area, drug dealing was so much more rampant and unbelievable that our
current situation makes it seem as though we could achieve something
almost edenic--not!
Those of you living in this general area (Bloomington Av. to 35W, 26th
St. to 34th St.) might/should be carefully watching. This is not to say
that those further away should feel comfortable. I cannot predict where
all they will go, but I know that they will move into the areas I have
outlined.
Yesterday, the mayor declared it Muriel Simmons Day in Minneapolis.
Thank you, R.T. That was sweet of you. She has earned her street cred
and her day. She kept a lot of folks both enthused and on task for a lot
of years. She does get in faces, always graciously, but forcefully. Drug
dealer, prostitute, politician, name it, she's stepped into "their"
space to speak truth to power. It was also her birthday, so we had cake.
Way to go, Muriel. Not too shabby for a woman in her mid-elderhood.
WizardMarks, Central
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