Morning Metro: Food Truck Park, Emory Traffic Alert, and Dying Industries
Decatur Metro | April 13, 2012
- Renderings of Atlanta Food Truck Park and Market [Curbed]
- Traffic Alert: Movie crew on Clifton Road starting today [CHCA]
- Bystanders detain purse snatcher at Decatur Library [Patch]
- Bourbon: A Love Story [AJC]
- “…today’s young activists are…not as good at thinking nationally and regionally.” [NYT]
- The Top 10 “dying industries” in the U.S. [WP]
Rendering courtesy of Atlanta Food Truck Park & Market Facebook page
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I found the Patch Police & Fire blurb particularly interesting today (Bystanders….). What I got out of it is:
– Decatur library patrons and bench users are a spunky and civic sort. Yay!
– I’m glad no one had a gun in the library incident.
– Do NOT carry a lot of cash in your purse–the lady with a lot of cash might have been out a lot of dough if the fearless library patrons and construction workers had not prevailed. The library employee with only $10 in their wallet has to cancel credit cards and lost the wallet, but not much cash.
– Nice purses attract trouble. (Personally, n=1, I find that Target has a nice selection and I don’t remember any Target purse being targeted.)
– Do NOT put your purse down. There’s a reason shoulder straps are so popular.
– You can bang on the door of DPD in the middle of the night and find help and justice!
– Decatur bystanders can be very helpful.
I love our little library. I want my kids (and most importantly, my wife) to feel safe there. I hope the city and/ or county takes all the incidents the past year or two seriously and keeps a strong security presence despite all the recent financial constraints.
Speak of “dying industries” and appliance repair–is there anywhere nearby that would fix a radio that stopped working? It’s one of those radio/cd player combos; cd works fine, radio just hisses. It’s the kind of thing where, growing up, there would have been some little hole-in-the-wall store full of weird stuff and a mechanical whiz neighborhood character who’d fix anything with a plug. Nowadays, like the article says, the urge is to throw away/get a new one and I want to avoid that. Thanks!
Good luck. Part of the problem is that goods are so cheap nowadays, given their complexity, that it’s too expensive to fix them. Years ago, I had a neat plug in wall fan that worked fantastic in my bathroom. When some bathtub remodelers ruined it with the stuff they were spraying, I took it to be repaired. The repair was great but cost more than the fan originally cost. I could have just bought a new one.
Sigh!
No one noticed that Food Truck Park is bringing the ocean to the ATL?