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Another Deepster Yard Goats Update

superjohn said:
That's your takeway from my post? Where have I ever defended Hartford as safe? It has it's issues like all cities do.
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For the record, it's listed 91 out of 91.
 
80shusky said:
I drove through part of Camden once about 6 years ago for work. There were several buildings that were almost completely collapsed near the river where the brick facades were actually being held up by long 2x4s leaning against them. There were people walking on the sidewalk avoiding the bases of the 2x4s and it looked like if you kicked one out the entire facade of the building would collapse on the sidewalk and street. The entire area looked like it had been bombed out. I don't know if it has changed since then, I hope it has, but I remember thinking it was the worse place I had ever seen in person in this country.
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Looks like that a couple streets in Waterbury I saw last summer. The old manufacturing buildings are burnt and falling apart and they are right up against the back of some of the houses going up the hill. There must be squatters and hazardous conditions all over the place.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
There has been some recent improvement as some work has gone into the city in part due to the escalating prices in Philly across the river. From what I have been told, downtown between the waterfront (music pavilion, battleship & aquarium) and Rutgers-Newark and Cooper (Rowan U) hospital is OK during daylight hours and the local and metro cops keep a tight lid on the Patco line running through Camden for folks commuting between the Jersey suburbs and Philly; but, the rest is a mess. The big concern is as a result of major shifts in consumer behavior lately, Campbell's Soup, which is based adjacent to downtown Camden could be vulnerable to a take-over. If that headquarters goes should Campbell's be sold, downtown Camden is history.
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Murder rate was cut in half a year ago, no clue if it's back up again. Camden has been dead my whole lifetime like most manufacturing cities on east coast and midwest.
 
Camden is also a community where their major city is in another state so they probably get screwed by both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. See Gary, IN or E. St. Louis, IL.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
There has been some recent improvement as some work has gone into the city in part due to the escalating prices in Philly across the river. From what I have been told, downtown between the waterfront (music pavilion, battleship & aquarium) and Rutgers-Newark and Cooper (Rowan U) hospital is OK during daylight hours and the local and metro cops keep a tight lid on the Patco line running through Camden for folks commuting between the Jersey suburbs and Philly; but, the rest is a mess. The big concern is as a result of major shifts in consumer behavior lately, Campbell's Soup, which is based adjacent to downtown Camden could be vulnerable to a take-over. If that headquarters goes should Campbell's be sold, downtown Camden is history.
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It is really an awful shame that there should be places like this in this country. I don't know what the answer is and I don't think anyone else does either but I hope we figure it out someday.
 
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superjohn said:
Looks like that a couple streets in Waterbury I saw last summer. The old manufacturing buildings are burnt and falling apart and they are right up against the back of some of the houses going up the hill. There must be squatters and hazardous conditions all over the place.
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Spent two summers taking night classes at the old UConn Waterbury campus to make-up for my less than stellar academic record my freshman year in Storrs. Driving down the hill to I-84 at 9 PM was an education in an of itself and than was 20 years ago.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
Spent two summers taking night classes at the old UConn Waterbury campus to make-up for my less than stellar academic record my freshman year in Storrs. Driving down the hill to I-84 at 9 PM was an education in an of itself and than was 20 years ago.
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where was the old Waterbury campus?
 
80shusky said:
I remember thinking it was the worse place I had ever seen in person in this country.
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Funny, but the last time I said that about someplace it was anything but a big, run down city. It was a little town in the middle of nowhere in Arizona -- Dolan Springs. It' is surrounded by desert, and apparently exists only to supply hookers and crack to the non-native American employees of the tourist attractions at the Hulapi(sp?) reservation on the Grand Canyon. I had never seen any place so depressing in my life. Prior to that, I thought Muskogee, OK was the pits. When I had to stay there, I came away with two things... There did not appear to be a professional sign painter in town. The signs on local businesses appeared to mostly be crudely painted on sheets of plywood. And the Walmart in town had closed up. Couldn't imagine a place so poor that it couldn't support a Walmart. Now the one in Derby, CT has closed, so what's that say?

Unrelated -- the Courant should entitle that article the 20 safest TOWNS in CT, because not one of the top 20 is actually a City. The vast majority of them are primarily bedroom communities.
 
John said:
where was the old Waterbury campus?
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On Hillside Ave just north off downtown off of Pine St. I think a Jewish school owns the campus now. We had an unwritten rule that after class no one was allowed to go to the parking lot across the street from the campus on Buckingham. One time during class, we had to duck behind our desks because Waterbury SWAT raided a drug dealer's home directly opposite the campus on Hillside. While not the best area, it was by far not the worst neighborhood in Waterbury, the areas around Washington Street come to mind.
 
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Butch said:
Did you buy Yard Goats merchandise yet?
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So, why don't you list what they have bought and I'll list what I've bought. You have my word I'll be honest.
 
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I still don't get constant Hartford bashing. I'm going out in Hartford on Friday night. It will be at least my tenth time in a month, seven different venues. Hartford avoiders are missing out.
 
Waquoit said:
I still don't get constant Hartford bashing. I'm going out in Hartford on Friday night. It will be at least my tenth time in a month, seven different venues. Hartford avoiders are missing out.
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Missing out would mean that we couldn't get the same deal/experience somewhere else. Where have you been going?
 
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XL Center, Bushnell, Infinity Hall, Wadsworth, Theater Works, Real Art Ways and Cinestudio. Those experinces are pretty much unique to Hartford in Hartford County. When's Richard Dreyfuss appearing at Playhouse on Park?
 
Waquoit said:
XL Center, Bushnell, Infinity Hall, Wadsworth, Theater Works, Real Art Ways and Cinestudio. Those experinces are pretty much unique to Hartford in Hartford County. When's Richard Dreyfuss appearing at Playhouse on Park?
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You got me there. Those are experiences unique to Hartford. Not sure I'd go to 5 of them on any given night, but you're right.
 
Bronin To West Hartford: 'You Can't Be A Suburb Of Nowhere'

Interesting comments from the Mayor about West Hartford in this article. "We're tied together, like it or not," he told a crowd at West Hartford Town Hall. "It's in your interest to have a strong city. You can't be a suburb of nowhere. It just doesn't work that way."

Does West Hartford REALLY care if Hartford sinks or swims?
 
Deepster said:
Does West Hartford REALLY care if Hartford sinks or swims?
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Of course they do. Why else would the send a cop over to harass a man shoveling snow in his own driveway?
 
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