Well, it has been two or three years since this site has been updated on anything resembling a regular basis, but that will hopefully change in the near future. I cannot guarantee anything, but I’m hoping to turn my attention…
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Moving
For the next week or so, The City Desk will be taking a break, as we move into our new home office. In the meantime, why not enjoy some older pieces you may have missed? :: The Main Avenue Tramway…
When the Moving Pictures Came to Town
In the first part of the 20th century, before making the cross-country trek to Hollywood, the motion picture industry settled briefly in our fair city. During the early years of cinema, film companies were based on the east coast, centered…
Briefs
Oh, You Never Knew It! Wimple and Bing, the City’s fifth-most-famous intersection, was almost known as Wimple and Porkpie! In 1903, due to inattentive aldermen, street-naming honors had devolved to the rascals of the Bottling District. A Mr. Elliott Lamb…
Out you two pixies go- through the door, or out the window
Salon: All hail Pottersville! In Capra’s Tale of Two Cities, Pottersville is the Bad Place. It’s the demonic foil to Bedford Falls, the sweet, Norman Rockwell-like town in which George grows up. Named after the evil Mr. Potter, Pottersville is…
Metropolis: “The Vanishing Class”
Though this story focuses upon New York, the same thing is happening in cities across the country. In June the Brookings Institution released a study called “Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America.†It found…