I had a meeting downtown. J-dogg needed a haircut, and his aunt's barber shop is downtown in Tower City, which is the Terminal Tower and several annexed high-rise office buildings. The bowels of the Terminal Tower were re-habbed a few yeras back into a chic shopping mall with fountains and upscale stores, you know, the whole '90's urban revitalization thing.
The plan was to drop me off, then J-dogg would park and get his haircut; and I would walk the six blocks or so when I was done and meet up at the barber shop. When I was done, I detoured through the Tower City mall so I wouldn't get rained on.
I hadn't been there in a couple years, and I was shocked. The huge Record Rendezvous with the mint-condition '57 Chevy on display was hacked up into several smaller stores, a video game place, pharmacy, and a couple other places. That was the first thing I noticed -- I was on an upper level looking down, and that was always first in view from that entrance.
And I didn't realize that the Disney Store, which I thought had been doing a booming business, was no longer the Disney Store. I was walking looking down and looking to the left at where the Disney Store used to be. It was something else now. No more Goofy or Minnie Mouse autographs. Damn! Some kind of toy store, it looked like. Or ... the sign where the Disney Store crest used to be said "Christmas Store." What the fu ...
Wham! I walked right into a marble Corinthian rectangular pillar, the pointy Corinthian thing wrapping the pillar sticking out five feet, 11-and-a-half inches above the floor, designed just so it would hit me in the right temple and ear. Owwwww! Damn that Mickey Mouse!
Posted by Bill at October 28, 2003 11:37 AMSounds like something from a Pretender song ".. my city was gone".
Posted by: Charlene at October 28, 2003 11:42 AMSee, I am telling you it is getting worse. Next year, it will be August 21st and the damned Christmas Trees will be coming at us!
-d
Ouch!
Posted by: kathy at November 1, 2003 12:48 PM