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03-07-2008, 09:09 PM
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Thanks
Thanks, I'm glad you liked my videos! You found these pretty quickly - I just posted most of them yesterday. They were uploaded so I could add them to my Syracuse Nostalgia site - Syracuse Nostalgia - , which I will be doing over the next few days.
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03-08-2008, 10:48 AM
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Speaking of which, you found this website rather quickly! wonderham, thanks again! That's a great website you've created. I like the focus on the northern suburbs. The North Syracuse area was a great place to grow up in the 80s and early 90s. You're almost like the "Dick Case" for our generation!
  Not sure where you find these video clips, but if you have access to any clip from WSTM's "Saturday Showboat" from the late 80s, that would really bring back the memories! 
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03-08-2008, 05:58 PM
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Well, I was just doing a search for "syracuse nostalgia" to see what I could find and I found this forum post.
Thank you for the compliment about the site! It's nice to get such positive feedback about it. I'm not sure who "Dick Case" is, but thanks again! Hopefully it's a good comparison! I have a lot of stuff on the site from the North Syracuse area because that's where I grew up. So, most of the stuff on the site from that area is from my own collection. Right now I don't have any "Saturday Showboat" clips on tape but if I do I'll post them on YouTube and let you know!
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03-15-2008, 10:34 AM
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Thanks wonderham!
Anyone notice the stark difference between Syracuse local commercials back then and local commercials today? Here is what I noticed.... As Syracuse's economy turns more Service and White Collar based, the Syracuse media turns more blue collar....  -1980s and 1990s manufacturing based economy = non blue collar commercials using cheerful professionals -2000s knowledge based economy = most commercials use a "ruff gruff" deep blue-collar voice Why? Anyone? I find this trend in the Syracuse media strange and disturbing. I find some local commercials down right insulting. For example, I have to turn the channel whenever a Kinney Drugs commercial comes on...
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08-05-2008, 08:03 AM
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what's the deal?
I was in Syracuse a few weeks ago and I was shocked to see how depressed the area looked. It seemed like everything along Erie Blvd. was either a crappy discount or dollar store, or was empty. I hadn't been there since 2002 and I really don't remember the city being in such bad shape. Armory Square looked good, but that's about it. What's going on??
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08-05-2008, 03:30 PM
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A lot of things are moving to the northern suburbs. You should check out the Rte. 11 corridor just north of the village of North Syracuse and Rte 31 in Clay. Both are being built up big time and the traffic is increasing. Same for Fayetteville where the old Mall was and in Camillus along West Genesee St. There's still some development on Erie Blvd. in DeWitt, but most of it is further away from the street behind Delta Sonic and K-Mart. Shoppingtown is going to be an outdoor Mall again and will be chooped up pretty soon. So, it's just going through some changes right now. Heck, even Bridge St./Manlius Center Rd. in the East Syracuse area is getting some development too.
Also, Eastwood is starting to make some more positive changes and Westcott still looks good as well.
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08-05-2008, 08:23 PM
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Westcott is a VERY small neighborhood that is on the cusp of the ghetto. Its an oasis to be sure...but the old JCC nearby on Genesee is now left abandoned. So sad.
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08-05-2008, 08:47 PM
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 This is exactly why visitors believe the Syracuse area is so depressing. Syracuse's national image is based on these experiences. For this very reason, the Syracuse area needs a population and job explosion. In order that these ugly areas become rebuilt and beautified. Mark my words: stopping sprawl does nothing rebuild the ugly, run-down areas... only fast population growth, and fast job growth will redevelop these "depressing areas" of the Syracuse Metro. While the Syracuse metro is waiting for that population boom, in the meantime what is the solution? Answer: Place new hotels, new businesses, new attractions, new colleges, new research centers in attractive suburbs. That way outsiders, visitors and residents have no need to travel through the ugly depressing parts of Syracuse. Maybe someday the Syracuse area will elect leadership that actually understands how important perception really is....until then we'll have to put up with leadership that only cares about environmental protection.  Last edited by bellafinzi; 08-05-2008 at 08:58 PM.
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08-05-2008, 08:55 PM
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