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The PBS show last night featuring the retired Mayor Joe Riley was excellent. It covered his career in Public Service at the state level and as the long tenured Mayor of Charleston. It shows what Charleston was like when Mayor Joe was elected in 1976 in photos and then morphs into what is there today. Joe knew very little about Urban Planning, but he surrounded himself with good ideas and found ways to implement them. This area is much better for his service.
I hope you good folks have a chance to see this show....it looks like it's on again Sunday Afternoon. It's worth an hour of your DVR Time. You might even find it on the ETV website.
FiveLoaves - Thanks so much for the info. I had wanted to see this, and forgot it was on. Found the Sunday show after I saw your post and DVR'd it.
From what I know of Riley he is a great man and was a great mayor. He was a visionary and wasn't afraid to find out what was working elsewhere around the world and bring those ideas to Charleston and then work hard to implement them.
Of course not. But that was not solely his doing.....there were a lot of fingerprints all over that, from both sides of the River. The current map of James Island looks like a dismembered corpse.
But the show provides a look at the Charleston of the 1970's when the downtown area had vacant lots and empty storefronts. The Navy base was closing down and the bridges were crumbling. Maybe the good ol' boys network would have found a way to bring King Street to life, or partner with Spoleto, or use the Historic District as a lever to revitalize the area. But there's also a good chance we'd still be driving over that decrepit Cooper River Bridge risking our lives everyday.
Did they talk about where all the street signs went?
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