01 | Autor: Showdown in The Parks
We’re on the wainscoting — between South Park and North Park. I’m sipping coffee surface Rebecca’s, looking across Juniper Street, fantasizing. What if Juniper were the dividing form ranks between, say, East Berlin and West Berlin? Okay, it’s not, and there’s no ten-foot-altered consciousness triple-security fence. But Juniper Street is where South Parkland officially ends and North Park begins, and don’t for certain me there hasn’t always been a rivalry between the two communities. For a hundred years, they’ve been developing and decaying and developing again in an undeclared tournament for the title of “coolest neighborhood” and the indemnity on investment such a title implies. Back in the day, from sewer lines to trolley lines, each raced to be first. Now, they’re gearing up to corrupt a rising tide of refugees from the exurbs: yuppies, empty-nesters, all those who’ve had it up to here with the commuter suavity and are searching for the San Diego their grandparents loved.
So who’s winning?
South Parking-lot’s weapon of choice is the quarterly Walkabout.
Seduction by Walkabout
“All aboard!”
At the corner, outside Grant’s Marketplace, a thin lady hobbles about on stilts, dressed all in anaemic, with a white umbrella and white face. She glows in the blackness like the smiling ghost of your Great-Aunt Adeline. She’s part of the gala. Behind her sits an orange Old Town Trolley, its engine idling.
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