Heart of the City by Steenz for July 12, 2009

Anyone know where I can get good Broasted Chicken? I REALLY miss it!

We just lost another lovely old building in my town because no one wanted it. Sad

Say it ain’t so - how sad that it is. Lovely strip today, Mark.

Joe Minotaur, last summer I first experienced broasted chicken at a mom-and-pop restaurant in Algoma, WI. Best chicken I ever ate.

Sad but true.

She mentioned Strawbridge’s. Now it’s gone.

to thedoctortheonelya.. on yesterday’s question:

LSMFT

lucky strike means fine tobacco —

and when I was stationed in texas, it was: lord save me from texas

you are an old person too!

Mark, I like that you tell us what’s going on with the adults in the strip as well as Heart & friends. Nice change-up.

My mom lives in center city Philadelphia and there are now 4 (FOUR) Starbucks in a four block radius. Really, one on every other corner. It’s crazy! Does Starbucks have such low self-esteem that it believes its customers wouldn’t walk an extra block for it?

I still want to don mourning when I go back home to visit because Wanamaker’s is now Lord & Taylor!

It saddens me to see lovely old buildings demolished–one thing I give my adopted home high marks on is the way they have preserved so many of them. They’ve been recycled from ugly eyesores to offices, and they’ve converted a number of downtown buildings to something we from the Delaware Valley are used to–buildings with businessses on the ground floor and apartments on the upper levels.

I love it when things can be restored and given a new life, as it were.

kajon Have you ever heard Lewis Black’s riff on the plethora of Starbucks? I’ve never been in one, let alone have one of their coffees.

I live in NYC. Gallon milk at Duane Reade is $4.59. At Costco in NJ it is $1.99.

Obviously the public has chosen.

I’ve always been very grateful that American developers were never in charge of the great old cities of Europe. Can’t you see Notre Dame being turned into condos?

Wanamaker’s is Macy’s now.

‘nuff said !

I live in a little village, where Starbucks and McDonalds have invaded our blissful, sleepy corner of the planet. Odd how they spread like a virus!

I live near Detroit where the tactic is to let the buildings deteriorate until it costs way too much to renovate and then they’ve got a good excuse to blow it up or tear it down. (Blowing it up is always great specator sport.) We traded our old Hudson’s store for a parking lot, Tiger Stadium has just been demolished and will probably be the same thing and next will be the old Train Station. But we all know we need more parking lots, tanning booths and nail parlors.

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