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Originally Posted by HunterK
Every which way you turn theres a crane it seems.
Gary Leonard taking pics at the still seemingly untouched Regent...
For people who may not understand what we've been talking about with Broadway, I took a few pics.
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Your pics really are the next best thing to actually being in dt. When browsing through them, many of them evoke the exact same mixed emotions that I often have when I'm personally in the hood. Some of that is dependent on how lively....how busy....the streets & sidewalks are. I think just about anyone will feel more positive about dt if they're observing it when lots of ppl are out & about....excepting, of course, panhandlers or street toughs looking for trouble.
however, broadway may be one of the few, if only, streets in LA....certainly in dt....where I actually would feel better if fewer ppl were moseying about....meaning fewer ppl as potential customers to all the
swapmeets. Broadway also may be one of the few, if only, streets in LA....in dt....where I'd actually feel relieved if increasing number of store stalls were vacant.
One reason why the street has been such a embarrassment for so many yrs is cuz enough property owners have been able to squeeze enough $$ out of enough swapmeet owners, cuz enough ppl have been walking through the front door as customers.
When an article about the broadway arcade bldg came out a few months ago, & some of the shop owners who were interviewed said their stores, & the street overall, no longer had the crowds of shoppers of the past, I didn't exactly feel bad about that.
But many of those swapmeets....far too many of them....still manage to hang on yr after yr after yr after yr. That's why I'll be even more irritated if a business like Figaro doesn't survive in the long run.
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