Top 10 DM Posts of 2015
Decatur Metro | December 31, 2015 | 9:00 am
2015 was dominated by a waterslide, but also included appearances by Google Fiber, the Macy’s at North DeKalb Mall and a number of concerning transportation accidents.
- 1000-Foot Long Water Slide Coming to Decatur This Summer
- How Much Will Decatur Water Slide Cost? and Answers To Other Slide-Related Questions
- Decatur 1000-Foot Water Slide Tickets Go On Sale Wednesday 9am; Only 6,000 Available
- Jim Stacy Puts Palookaville Up For Sale
- UPDATED: Google Fiber in ATL? Google Sets Atlanta Press Conference For Tomorrow
- Macy’s At North DeKalb Mall Is Closing
- Driver Killed in Scott Boulevard Traffic Accident
- DeKalb County Parking Deck Will No Longer Be Free in Evenings or on Weekends
- Cement Truck Flips onto Car on North Decatur Road
- Skateboarder Hit and Killed By Train in Decatur
Bonus note: The post announcing the Oakhurst Porchfest schedule ranked #14 for the year!
Photo courtesy of Catherine
I think it’s safe to say that, in Decatur, the year’s biggest bust was that water slide.
Best thing to happen in 2015, Big Tex Cantina finally closed. How did it stay open as long as it did? Now for 2016, close that awful SOS Tiki Bar and bring back a good bar like Paper Plane.
Actually, Big Tex closed at the end of 2014.
Don’t sweat the details. It was a very poor troll attempt anyway.
Agree about SOS. After the water slide, replacing Paper Plane with a tiki bar was the biggest bust.
We hit up Paper Plane fairly regularly and have now been to SOS a couple of times. It’s different, of course, but not dramatically so. What are the specific complaints?
Maybe I missed it, but when we went I didn’t see a bottle of bourbon in the place. All of the house cocktails were rum based, and the limited food menu was equally one dimensional. The place is too small to do a full-on tiki bar experience, so I doubt it will draw devotees of that sort of thing anyway. Bring back Paper Plane!
Huh, we have been several times and the happy hour punch has ususally been gin based – unusual for punch, we thought, but delicious. Once it was mezcal based which I did not care for but my companions loved. We haven’t seen a rum based one yet.
I guess that it’s a tiki bar…
Happy New Year, DM peeps! May 2016 bring you peace, joy, and abundance.
That photo at the top still creeps me out. One of the more alarming photos of 2015.
New Walmart’s not on the list? I guess that issue cooled down. I was desperately looking for something the other day and made my first visit. Not impressed. The up escalator from the parking lot was broken, 3 of the ~6 self checkout kiosks were broken, lines were long at the other checkout stations, and not only wasn’t my sought item at Walmart, neither were a couple of common items that I thought I’d pick up since I was there anyway. On the plus side, the underground parking is quite well lit and not deserted feeling like the underground parking at the Edgewood Target. But the sloped and curved driveway down into it badly needs one of those huge traffic mirrors to prevent collisions. Since I’m not a Walmart aficionado, I wasn’t sure what to expect but I found the incredibly wide scope–from groceries to clothing to toys to auto supplies–to be quite shallow in actual selection. I’m not likely to be able to kill several birds with one stone by going to Walmart. Hitting 2-3 stores that I know will carry my items is going to be more efficient.
That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout. It doesn’t have to suck for ideological reasons. It can suck simply by virtue of failing to do what a big box store is supposed to do. So now I can choose not to go as a savvy free marketer instead of as a latte liberal. Feels the same but tends to be less polarizing.
Or it’s possible to dislike Walmart for multiple reasons. Anyway, since I love lattes and liberals, latte liberal has never seemed like much of an insult to me. Similarly, my father loved being called Archie Bunker.
Just about every time I’ve been to a Walmart in metro ATL (I haven’t been to the new one), there are very few check out lanes open and long lines. But when we take my mother-in-law to the ones near Anniston, AL, they always seem to have most of the lanes staffed and shorter lines. Don’t know what the reason is, and it doesn’t make sense as there is much greater competition for Walmart here. Do they really not have enough help, or do they choose to understaff here? Regardless, the customer experience is pretty dreadful and worth avoiding if you can find the stuff you need elsewhere (though it can be difficult to find, say, a toilet seat on short notice when you break one right before guests are coming for Xmas Eve dinner, which happened to my mother-in-law).
Seems like the “biggest bust” would be that water main . . .
Fair point. And on the subject of biggest busts (non-local), how about the decision to play the college football semi-finals on New Years Eve? There was a 45% drop in viewership compared to last year.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/awful-cfp-semifinal-ratings-show-executives-there-is-a-limit-to-greed-001910612-ncaaf.html