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Originally Posted by mensaguy
I think there were two buses. They were never used as buses. They were used as seating when the restaurant at the old MacDonald's location was an English-themed place. That location has had so many restaurants that it's hard to keep track of what the cuisine is this week. There was a French cuisine restaurant there once too.
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Many eateries tried down town and all failed for the same reason. The shift - how does one say this without sounding like a racist or being banned - from the day time workers and Saturday shoppers to the street crowd after rush hour through the week and at night on Saturday destroyed the bottom line of these places. They were constantly being robbed, used as a hang out for hookers, drug transactions, thugs or homeless stops, or just trashed by people that were pretty far down on the civilized scale. If none of that happened, decent, normal folk would be intimidated by the harsh and rough looking crowd, covered in tats, yelling foul language and smelling like weed. Regular people are not going to frequent a place that tolerates that atmosphere.
You will notice so many places died for this reason - Wendy's was another big loss, but ask yourself why does Fruth pharmacy survive there as does First Watch up the street? They close before the crowd shifts in the evening. Yet their corporate managers and the city begged these owners to stay open and they all tried and then gave up.
The West Side has this issue. Spend some time there and watch. During the day it is a great place to shop, eat and visits, but after the last cars drive out of the area after rush hour or once it starts to get on into evening on Saturday, the whole mood of the district shifts. The Undead as I call them begin creeping out of places you never noticed before. people you never saw once all day are suddenly the bulk of the movement on the street and decent, normal people realize they are suddenly an outsider and worse, they start to feel like prey.
Is that how it really is? Doesn't matter, it is how it feels to people with people with money, soap and social, civil and moral standards.
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