...And That's My Opinion©
By Sandy Goldman
The Rogers Park Community Curmudgeon
The Way It Was:
Howard
Street, Morse Avenue, Clark Street and Other Once Vibrant Areas
Sponsoring
Ads from the Field School Messenger (Annual Newspaper) circa 1970
How
many of you can remember? Can it ever be again?
What
happened…?
Economics?
Politics? Ineffective Leadership? Population change? Bad landlords? Social
Service Agencies? Poor tenant selection?
Drug dealers? Badly maintained buildings? Lack of concern? Ineffective,
bloated community organizations? Empty stores? Unkept alleys & streets?
Sorry looking business sections? Crime?
Gangs? Absentee owners?
Each
of these is a story in itself. Maybe
I’ll do it - someday – when Rogers Park has completed its renewal! (And it IS beginning!) Think Uptown, Andersonville, Edgewater,
Halsted, Bryn Mawr, Clyborne Corridor and on and on…
It’s
long, but it’s fun reading
...And that's my opinion.
And I'm Sandy Goldman
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and I'll add them to my rapidly growing database of readers.
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