Downtown development recap

[DowntownDan]

I like the neon, just wish it wasn't a porn shop.  I mean seriously, who is still buying porn from actual stores?  The value of that property has to be increasing as the area continues to grow.

[RecycleMichael]

I like the neon, just wish it wasn't a porn shop.  I mean seriously, who is still buying porn from actual stores?  

silence...

[Townsend]

silence...fapping of the lambs

How obscene is that word anyway?

disclaimer:  the above quote is not Recycle Michael's actual quote.  I have edited it to make me laugh inside and perhaps die a little slower.

[jacobi]

How many of us have actually been in there?  I have.  It's just sort your average sex shop with the addition of theaters.  What I like about that place is that it is a connection to our dirty past when we wernt subject to the sterile sanitizing of gentrification.  I like that there is something seedy about downtown still, even as the scared to death souties venture downtown.

[TURobY]

I like the neon, just wish it wasn't a porn shop.  I mean seriously, who is still buying porn from actual stores?

I don't buy porn, but I have bought other things there.

[erfalf]

Maybe if there were a few more neon's downtown, it would be a little less noticeable. As it stands, it is like that weird cousin that is always making a stupid face when you take family pictures. You get them developed and you are just like, "Dang Fred". But he's family, he's just a little embarrassing when everyone else sees him.

Maybe not exactly like that, but you get the drift. It will only be in the background of shots of the blue dome, but it's always there.

[swake]

Maybe if there were a few more neon's downtown, it would be a little less noticeable. As it stands, it is like that weird cousin that is always making a stupid face when you take family pictures. You get them developed and you are just like, "Dang Fred". But he's family, he's just a little embarrassing when everyone else sees him.

Maybe not exactly like that, but you get the drift. It will only be in the background of shots of the blue dome, but it's always there.

There are lots of neon signs in the Blue Dome now

[Teatownclown]

There are lots of neon signs in the Blue Dome now

Resembles a Carney hangout.....

[TheArtist]

  Aaaah reminds you of home.  How sweet.

[TheTed]

I don't get the disapproval of the porn store. NIMBY-ism is for the suburbs.

It's not like there's a shortage of land available in the area for bars/restaurants/retail.

I see the porn store and think, as backward as Oklahoma is, at least we're not one of the many states that outlaw various kinds of "devices" of the type sold there.

Besides, what other retail establishments downtown are open even 1/4 as many hours per week as the porn store?

[Townsend]

I see the porn store and think, as backward as Oklahoma is, at least we're not one of the many states that outlaw various kinds of "devices" of the type sold there.

Oklahoma laws probably allow ownership of these devices but make it illegal to use them.

[Hoss]

Oklahoma laws probably allow ownership of these devices but make it illegal to use them.

Wouldn't this affect you?  I mean, you being a Dancer Toucher and all...

[Townsend]

Wouldn't this affect you?  I mean, you being a Dancer Toucher and all...

Your idea of a dancer and my idea of a dancer may differ.

[Conan71]

 

[Townsend]

He suggested dancers as "devices".