Wishes for a New Year
My daughter recently asked me why didn't anyone want to spend more time on our downtown square. The city is working hard to regain our downtown with First Friday events (1st Friday evening of each month, local and area musicians will perform free entertainment at shops, restaurants and galleries), when weather permits there is dining outside on the sidewalk, there is Enid Lights up the Plains with fireworks, music and food to start the holiday season, and of course the many parades and celebrations held downtown on the court house square. We discussed what we would like to see again from the past. Lots of shoppers walking around the square and having lots of stores to visit. Wishing we had a place like we used to, Woolworth or Downs Pharmacy with their soda fountains where you could get an ice cream or coke and visit with friends. Then there is the outdoor drive-in theater that stands alone, long ago overgrown with weeds where the speakers used to be. Why isn't there someone who would want to re-open it, at least in the summer, so everyone could go back to watching a great movie from the seats in your car. Even downtown, where there used to be three movies theaters, someone could open a movie instead of having to go to the mall. We could sure use a nice cafeteria like the one we used to have. A place where everyone went for lunch after church or for a nice meal during a week day evening. It is really sad how the squares of small town America have gone by the wayside. Our town is trying to regain those days, even to keeping the old buildings with quaint brick fronts and dates of 1900s on the front. It is so much more inviting than a Mall with its big parking lots and empty stores.
posted by Ann at
9:44 AM
1 Comments:
Our town is doing the same thing. Our old "Grand" theater is reopening and a lot of little shops are going in and restaurants. I just love walking around down there and shopping. My first job was at Newberrys Ten Cent Store down there.
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