Subj : Re: Former RR tracks
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 10:35:00

Joe,

 JM>   We have plenty of those in town. Businesses either closed for good or
 JM> moved where the people are now.

  Follow the crowds and the money.

 JM>   Some buildings were re-purposed.  Former department stores, etc are
 JM> offices or restaurants, etc of some sort on the ground floor and some
 JM> of the upper floors are empty loft apartments.

  They've done that downtown...and the former Borden Dairy in Little Rock
became Oxford Graphics, with silkscreen printing and embroidery...a much
larger place than the original location, which was in a former 555 Auto
Supply Store. The original property (until it was sold off) had an old
wooden barn...and the way the land was, when it poured rain, it flooded...
to basically wash out the cow manure. That was not good when I was trying
to do work with silkscreen printing and electrical stuff.

  Shortly after I resigned in 2004 for declining health, tragedy struck
the owners family...when one of the employees, working with his cousin
(I had worked with both of them), basically "snapped" at a remark that
his cousin made, and shot him dead. The family split...so much so that
they don't do Christmas or anything else together anymore...and the
business ended up splitting between the 2 brothers...with the textile
and embroidery part of it moving to another location. Yet, with COVID-19
and everything else, business for them (and so many others) has fallen
off so much, that much of the staff was laid off, or they resigned.

 JM>   About 25 years ago the buildings that had that horrible plain siding
 JM> put on in the '50s to "modernise" the buildings was stripped off and
 JM> the buildings restored as to how they were meant to look.

  Unfortunately, if cities can't get tax revenue from these buildings,
they figure it's cheaper to tear them down, than to preserve them for
their historical value.

 >   This is their version of rewriting history.

 JM>   Not so much rewriting as ignoring.
  
  That, too.

Daryl

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