tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629790.post115833275619341358..comments2024-03-28T06:21:34.602-06:00Comments on twin city sidewalks: The Hard Times GentryBill Lindekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11373780012930618768noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629790.post-28823103485371912452008-12-07T01:51:00.000-06:002008-12-07T01:51:00.000-06:00let me clarify the three people pictured are part ...let me clarify the three people pictured are part of the neighborhood group that voted unanimously, minus one (me), to put cameras that beam to the top of one of the towers and then down to the police substation downtown. they are up on cedar and on riverside.(now they are talking about putting lots more) at the time i said it's only going to push crime back into the residental part of the neighborhood. this year there have been three murders in the west bank. none of them were on them were caught on the $250,000's worth of cameras in the neighborhood. One happened behind my old apartment and one happened in front of the house next door to the house i lived in before that. I was being a little over dramatic about leaving. the hardtimes will be there for a long long time<BR/><BR/> by the way the augsburg student housing, complete with a small barnes and noble is open but the condo project behind the towers hasn't even broke ground and with economic hard times probably won't any time soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629790.post-54816220775908626252007-09-14T01:05:00.000-06:002007-09-14T01:05:00.000-06:00I was once standing waiting for the bus in the Har...I was once standing waiting for the bus in the Hard Times entryway. This was in about 1993. I started chatting with a nice ethiopian man. He was very well educated, funny, spoke great english.<BR/><BR/>Then another ethiopian man walked past us, leaving the cafe. When he saw my companion, he began to run in fear. The man I'd been chatting with chased him out into the street and began roundkicking him in the leg. They ran off, my erstwhile chatting friend kicking the other guy.<BR/><BR/>I saw him later. I asked him what the deal was. "Oh, just trouble from the old country," he said, and walked into the cafe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629790.post-1160142778734913942006-10-06T07:52:00.000-06:002006-10-06T07:52:00.000-06:00To bring together your Art observation with the Ha...To bring together your Art observation with the Hard Times comment . . . <BR/><BR/>Several years ago, two friends and I saw a man enter the Hard Times hesitantly. Then, standing a few feet from our table, he took out a small handful of pennies from his pocket and proceeded to swallow them.<BR/><BR/>I often wrote this off as impossible, though my friends also could recall it. Then, in 2004 I read this story:<BR/><BR/>www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/18/coin.eater.ap/index.htmlJessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08524022445378028625noreply@blogger.com