[PRCo] Re: What's in a Name????

[Fred Schneider]

No.  My friend Bruce Bente simply speaks of it in terms of waves like  
throwing a stone into a pond and watching the ripples go out.   In  
many cities the ripples are starting over and there are good places  
to live downtown.   Ask Derrick Brashear ... he moved back into the  
city.   I think, and preach, that as two-plus billion Chinese and  
Indians drive up the price of petroleum, we will be forced to move  
into more compact housing if we want to stay warm (or cool) and be  
able to get to stores and work without an inordinate amount of driving.

On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:42 AM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> In northwestern Milwaukee County,  there were the rural and semi-rural
> communties of Granville, North Granville and Granville Center.  
> Milwaukee and
> suburban Brown Deer eventually gobbled them up through annexation.
>
> The remnants of Granville ceased to exist during 1964. The area  
> went from a
> pleasant rural and residential area to urban sprawl (a seemingly  
> unplanned
> commercial, residential and industrial mixture) and then to a high  
> crime,
> low income area between 1964 and the mid 1980s.
>
> Businesses failed (including one of the largest indoor shopping  
> malls in
> Wisconsin) and tax revenues nosed dived.
>
> The city is trying a residential and economic renewal program  
> there. The
> centerpiece area has been renamed......."Granville."
>
> I wonder if the charming roadside farmers' fruit and vegetable  
> stands of my
> early childhood will return? Or perhaps the Milwaukee Northern  
> interuban
> line my mother used to ride?  (Am being sarcastic, Fred.) :-)
>
> K.
>
>
>
> Fred Schneider wrote:
>
>
>>> Why just pick on Pittsburgh.   That's not fair is it.   Here in
>>> Lancaster we used to have streetcar routes and later bus lines that
>>> were identified by the political wards they served: 7th Ward (and
>>> later the Duke St. - 7th Ward bus), 6th Ward (and later the 6th Ward
>>> - Laurel bus), and the 8th Ward - McCaskey bus.    Well, we no  
>>> longer
>>> have a 7th Ward bus.   We still have a bus that goes to through the
>>> 7th Ward but now its called "Southeast Lancaster" because everybody
>>> knows "The Ward" is such a horrible place.
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