Oh SGR, how I hate you so
your inadequate sidewalk space
your lack of affordable dining options
random amphibious vehicles half-full
of slightly moronic tourists waving at me
an over-amplified tour guide forcing me
to overhear once again about ‘Churchill’
eyeball fucking me from the window
of a Starbucks doesn’t make you urban
I’ll take compromised air and windows covered in paper starfish on Barrington any day. —Auburn Priest
This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2011.
Mmmm, auburn and priest….interesting!
Drinking fair trade coffee , giving coin to bums and playing hopscotch with puke piles and broken glass doesn’t make you “hip” either. Halifakes like you make me wish the Hopper was a tad more bellicose in both armament and purpose.
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Oh Come on SGR’s not that bad is it? You could always, you know, not go there.
Ribbit Ribbit, bitches!
http://www.amphibiousvehicle.net/amphi/L/l…
I’m not a big fan of SGR, but I don’t hate it either. I just don’t go unless I have to for some reason.
Don’t like it, don’t go. It really is quite that simple.
Poetic angst? With a reference to a kiddie diddler. That’s a first for LTWWB I think.
Playing in squalor doesn’t make you hip either, Mr OP.
I hate to break it to you OP, but the harbour hopper goes down Barrington st too.
You forgot the panhandling mafia.
Never figured out why shop owners have not brought out the garden hoses. If it were my location I would not have them in front of my door.
At least it is a short street. Most cities a business strip can often run a few miles. Here we get ‘sample’ streets, and not many of them.
unfortunately for OP, there are also LOTS of SERIOUSLY hot chicks of all ages strutting up and down that street. Hard to argue with the talent.
Meh
They should install a water cannon on that amphibious vehicle to wash away the white (and other colored) trash and homeless people from SGR. That would clean it up for the more civilized people to visit.
This is another unbelievable bitch. Everyone knows that Sackville Drive is the best.
Barrington St. is our depressing Downtown Turdwalk although I noticed a lot of activity between Blowers and Sackville – now if they could do the same between Sackville and Prince – a shitshow on both sides of the street with its crackheads and scratch tickets. It really gets to me because I grew up when that street was big thriving shopping district and has been ignored even since malls came into existence in the west end. This could be suce a nice downtown for local business but the rents are insane and the Mayor could care fucking less.
Actually, there are a bunch of new stores and restaurants that are opening on barrington.
I used to love the candy store that was on the corner of Spring Garden, across from the gardens( before the dq was there) Does anyone remember that place? I think that it was called the Rose Bowl.
HK – they’ve closed DQ some time ago, possible spot for safe injection site ha ha.
The DQ used to be a Swansons.
It’s going to be an eastlink store now.
There’s a new place that opened up on Barrington that I’ve been wanting to check out for a while now that apparently sells booze *and* sweet things.
The Vietnamese place next to Fogue Pado is consistently awesome. Delicious food and reasonably priced.
Real Asians eat there, so it must be good 😀
Orgasmatron, you’ve peaked my curiosity…
roughly where is this magical establishment of which you speak?
‘Real Asians’? – Oh Mel.
http://api.ning.com/files/ATax0GwOTn13yWDw…
It’s near where Carsand-Mosher used to be.
they don’t have a website yet… but they have a FB page. Yum, yum, I really want to check them out next time I’m in town!
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@ happy kombacha: The candy shop was called The Candy Bowl. The last time I saw it, they had moved to Quinpool Road, but I haven’t been down that strip looking for candy in 10 years or more. I used to love that store. My granny would buy these great wee English candies called “Dew Drops”. Essentially, they were wee little gummies covered with sugar. It was fine fodder for the wee folk.