Morning Metro: Eddie’s 20, Fixing Bridge 17, and Kids in the Car
Decatur Metro | | 9:38 am
- Great feature his month celebrating Eddie Attic’s 20th year [Atlanta Mag]
- DeKalb Commission and CEO still fighting over cable access broadcast [AJC]
- GDOT finally going to fix 17th Street bridge fence [CL]
- Va-Hi Food Truck Wednesdays are back [Patch]
- Kids who are driven everywhere don’t know their neighborhoods [Atlantic Cities]
Panaramic view inside Eddie’s courtesy of Google Maps
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Seems the “kids driven” study’s conclusions were more related to kids’ perception of their environment as welcoming or dangerous than to their ability to navigate, which is what the article’s headline implies. We walk a lot with our kids, but also drive & my 3 year old is pretty adept at navigating streets in the car (i.e., turn here, etc.).
Not saying it’s a bad thing to get kids/people out of cars and interacting with each other & the built environment, just that the article is a bit too sensationalist for my taste…
I agree, which is probably why I changed the title in the post above. Doesn’t quite explain why I posted it though! But you must sympathize with me. It’s hard NOT to link to something that has to do with two favorite topics here: kids and the built environment.
I feel a children’s book coming on…
Yep – noticed you had changed the title (yours was more appropriate than theirs).
How about “Stevie D and the Streets of Decatur”?
Yeah, the term “navigate” isn’t quite right. As soon as my son started to take the bus to school, for field trips, for camp trips, he became an ace navigator. One time, my visiting father took him to a Braves game and he marvelled at the back route method that my son insisted on using–I had never in my life been on most of the streets they travelled! In fact, without my children, I would never know the ins and outs of City of Decatur so well. Not only are they ace navigators but they provide a full social commentary, e.g. “…that green house is where B— lives…his grandmother used to live there too but she moved in with his aunt who babysits for J— on X– street on Wednesdays except when he goes to guitar lessons with A— whose Mom used to teach at Glennwood before it became a 4/5 but now……………”
Actually I very distinctly remember when I was 17 and had just gotten my driver’s license, my aunt invited me to come to her house which was about 20 minutes away from my home, all in Gwinnett suburbs. She had lived there all my life and I spent many summers there. But as I got ready to leave my house, I realized I had no idea how to get there. I had never driven there and had never paid attention.
READ the great Atlanta magazine story
on Eddie Owen. Really talented writer and a fantastic piece and no one is paying me to say this!
Agreed. Very nice article.
I love Eddie’s Attic to death but I’m not crazy about the process. If your party is smaller than 4 and you don’t buy a table at a premium you’re likely to end up in a crush at the bar or in those godawful bleachers. And the tables are pretty uncomfortable to boot. It’s been practically impossible to buy tickets without paying a “convenence” fee (admittedly Ticket Alternative is more reasonable than Ticketmaster, but still. I work close enough that I’d like to be able to walk over and buy tickets at lunch or after work). I’ve always hoped they would someday find a bigger space for a listening room.