Hi. Thanks for the memories. I lived on Park Avenue for 30 years. It’s very pretty now as it was then. But I want to bring up an issue of transparency in your video. Every business downtown is shown. EXCEPT one. You actually went OUT OF YOUR WAY to not show the cannabis shop at James and Main. Why??? You went so far as to ruin your beautiful shots by sticking a PARKING SIGN in the middle of a panning shot? Seriously? We’re not idiots. That amount of effort to craft your fantasy of Beautiful Downtown of Georgetown (sic) is just sad. Two things: 1) pretending something isn’t something doesn’t make it “beautiful“ it makes it sanitized. And doesn’t change the reality. 2) Did it ever occur to you that perhaps, cannabis, which is LEGAL, might be just another part of the world of what MAKES Georgetown beautiful. Hmmm? Huh? Nice cute bedroom community. The GO train. Weed friendly hipsters. People are coming in droves. Catch up. Liquor is dead. And thank gawd re: see 1970 at the McGibbon and Delrex, and …If I could have gotten a nickel for all the fights I’d seen at the “historic McGibbon Hotel”, or for the number of drunks pissing in the alley behind the Legion Hall … ha! And no shade, but just remember that in 1970 then this *alcohol* fueled hell was also “Beautiful Downtown Georgetown”. and no one ever hid a store front or liquor store out of a camera’s view finder. Sheesh. So yeah It was just as pretty then for the people that LIVE/D here. We understood that along with the good came the drunks and fights perhaps. But it’s part of the mix of true beauty - it comes with warts and all. You don’t / can’t / shouldn’t just hide what you don’t like. And the dispensary it is a regulated and legal weed dispensary. Get over it. It’s actually nice looking (if you knew that street you’d have known it was actually always the saddest and emptiest corners of downtown over the ages. Now it’s vibrant and bright. So? ) And please stop painting my town with your moral censorship. Thanks for hearing me out.
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Hi. Thanks for the memories. I lived on Park Avenue for 30 years. It’s very pretty now as it was then.
But I want to bring up an issue of transparency in your video. Every business downtown is shown. EXCEPT one. You actually went OUT OF YOUR WAY to not show the cannabis shop at James and Main. Why??? You went so far as to ruin your beautiful shots by sticking a PARKING SIGN in the middle of a panning shot? Seriously? We’re not idiots.
That amount of effort to craft your fantasy of Beautiful Downtown of Georgetown (sic) is just sad. Two things: 1) pretending something isn’t something doesn’t make it “beautiful“ it makes it sanitized. And doesn’t change the reality. 2) Did it ever occur to you that perhaps, cannabis, which is LEGAL, might be just another part of the world of what MAKES Georgetown beautiful. Hmmm? Huh? Nice cute bedroom community. The GO train. Weed friendly hipsters. People are coming in droves. Catch up. Liquor is dead. And thank gawd re: see 1970 at the McGibbon and Delrex, and …If I could have gotten a nickel for all the fights I’d seen at the “historic McGibbon Hotel”, or for the number of drunks pissing in the alley behind the Legion Hall … ha!
And no shade, but just remember that in 1970 then this *alcohol* fueled hell was also “Beautiful Downtown Georgetown”. and no one ever hid a store front or liquor store out of a camera’s view finder. Sheesh. So yeah It was just as pretty then for the people that LIVE/D here. We understood that along with the good came the drunks and fights perhaps. But it’s part of the mix of true beauty - it comes with warts and all. You don’t / can’t / shouldn’t just hide what you don’t like.
And the dispensary it is a regulated and legal weed dispensary. Get over it. It’s actually nice looking (if you knew that street you’d have known it was actually always the saddest and emptiest corners of downtown over the ages. Now it’s vibrant and bright. So? ) And please stop painting my town with your moral censorship. Thanks for hearing me out.