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Charlie West (Charles & Gaukel) | 31 fl | Complete
(07-18-2018, 11:36 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Many remember Downtown from the 1960s and 1970s, when it was still an important destination for retail and services and problems of homelessness and drugs were not as apparent.  Those seem to be the key features by which "nostaligiaists" judge the Downtown.  I have friends who sniff at Downtown to this day, somehow not grasping that it is no longer the city's retail hub and seriously put off by (i.e. afraid of) anything not middle class in appearance.  The restaurants, coffee houses, cultural amenities and events, and tech employment seem to have zero impact on that way of thinking.  For me, if I were obliged to live in the Kitchener suburbs and never spent time Downtown, I'd be looking to stick a sharp object into my neck ....

walking through the area at 10 or 11 at night in the winter is an odd experience,
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RE: Charlie West (Charles & Gaukel) | 31 fl | U/C - by darts - 07-18-2018, 09:40 PM

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