Re: Alturas Park

["david sarff" <davesway@hotmail.com>]

Ah... How well I remember downtown before the malls came in.
Sure we had chain stores but the ratio did not seem so out of proportion.
We had plenty of Variety and we were often on a first name basis.
You didn't have to drive from one end of town to the other to shop.
Unless you went out to the country dairy/s.
  I can think of at least five hardware related stores right downtown and 
Tri State was on the edge of town.
Somebody find a 20 or 30 year old Phone book and look at the yellow 
pages.Check out the businesses then look up the population level of the 
time.
   I think you will find we were well served by the local merchants.

For those who might enjoy a little entertainment see if you can find a movie 
called True Stories. It was filmed in 1986 by David Byrne and has John 
Goodman as a lead.
It sort of has some matter relating to a small town growing out of its 
shorts.
Dave



>From: WMSteed@aol.com
>To: dpalm@earthlink.net, wrparish@moscow.com
>CC: bill_london@hotmail.com, vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Re: Alturas Park
>Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:19:24 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 2/13/00 4:01:36 PM, dpalm@earthlink.net writes:
>
><< chain stores that add nothing to our community >>
>
>Duncan,  If it weren't for the chains we would be like Genesee and have to 
>go
>to Lewiston, Spokane or Cd'A for certain things or any variety at all.  
>Local
>people just don't have the resources to bring the number of restaurants, 
>gas
>stations (yea, I know about the prices), movie houses, variety stores,
>department stores, etc. that we have available to us.  Is there a local
>grocery store except the CO-OP here?  They don't carry certain items and I
>have to rely on the chains for those.
>
>I support local businesses but not to the exclusion of chains.  The best
>product at the best price is important to many of us.  I think we'd all be
>amazed if someone listed the number of businesses by some category and
>whether or not they were part of a chain.  Some here are a chain of two or
>three that most of us think of as local while the second one is in another
>state.  They started out as a local business for some community and due to
>hard work and persistence have grown into a dreaded "chain."
>
>Just the other side.
>
>Walter Steed
>

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