Comments: Bodymore, Murderville”
Scoop all the maniacs up and drop em right in the middle of ghettoville, Chicago at 11pm on Fri.
If they make it out they will have earned their place in society.
If not, well, the world will be a better place without them. (where da crows iz?)
Oh yeah, slam all them tarris' in there too.
Posted by ghostsniper at June 19, 2017 12:57 PM
"Long ago, Baltimore pretty much invented the idea of gentrification. Mayor William Donald Schaefer had a dream of fixing his city so he condemned a bunch of houses in and around the waterfront and gave them away to urban pioneers."
This is not quite true. I was living in Baltimore at the time, and owned one of those houses for a year.
Large parts of the Federal Hill and Fells Point neighborhoods were condemned, but not for urban pioneers. The areas were condemned to build a tunnel so that I-83 could continue under the Bay. When the city and state and feds abandoned that project, after a community leader named Barbara Mikulski led a movement to save the old parts of the city, the poorly secured houses were in such poor condition, that they were worthless.
It was only then that 100 or 200 houses, some dating from the XVIIIth century, were turned over to folks who promised to fix them up.
Fells Point never really became a nice, gentrified neighborhood. Too many bars and most of them dive bars (it was the seafaring entertainment district for most of the XXth century.) Federal Hill was, I think, marginally nicer.
Both neighborhoods were doomed by the gradual violent ethnic cleansing of Baltimore, which has left the city with only a few non-African majority enclaves.
Posted by Punditarian at June 20, 2017 12:45 PM
I would have gone with Bodymore, Murderland, myself.
Posted by Mumblix Grumph at June 21, 2017 3:51 AM