this post in support of gentrifying "cleaning up" Market street (by allowing louder signage!) actually has "Great White Way of San Francisco" (emphasis mine) on their faux-nostalgic photograph.
Paging doctor Freud, your white-privilege is showing.
Wait, what? They want to revitalize those two blocks of Market by putting up bigger signs? What?
I love the photo that he chose for that part of the street. The last I checked, the two big adult theaters are also in that two-block stretch (1077 Market St., between 6th & 7th; "See the beauty; Touch the magic"). I'm trying to figure out how their having bigger signs will help "revitalize" the tenderloin.
Also hey jacksauce Broadway works the way it does because it's a long, dense street that looks like that, not a rinky two blocks.
I don't know but I imagine there is quite enough magic-touching going on in those theaters; they need very little additional outside encouragement.
My psychotherapist's office is right in that area too -- just a few blocks up from "see the beauty". I'd rather people not pee on the sidewalk, too, but I'm with you: how will bigger signs help?
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Date: 2009-09-23 08:56 pm (UTC)I love the photo that he chose for that part of the street. The last I checked, the two big adult theaters are also in that two-block stretch (1077 Market St., between 6th & 7th; "See the beauty; Touch the magic"). I'm trying to figure out how their having bigger signs will help "revitalize" the tenderloin.
Also hey jacksauce Broadway works the way it does because it's a long, dense street that looks like that, not a rinky two blocks.
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Date: 2009-09-23 09:06 pm (UTC)My psychotherapist's office is right in that area too -- just a few blocks up from "see the beauty". I'd rather people not pee on the sidewalk, too, but I'm with you: how will bigger signs help?