bitty, bubblebabble, and rsc to check out some stuff for motss.con.xxi I brought my camera but hardly took any pictures. I was going to take pictures of hotel lobbies/lounge space but didn't - I was too busy testing out their WiFi with my phone and I don't like its camera much anyway.While walking past a theatre that I mistakenly thought was showing Jesus Christ Superstar (it was to be several weeks later) we ran into these native providencians.
The best thing I saw was this lovely lady in a store window (no we weren't in Amsterdam):
And this odd piece of debris:
Welcome to Providence
Junior year at Brown, in preparation for the band banquet, a group of us were coming up with "senior gifts" to present to the departing seniors. As part of a silly joke (for a Wellesley tranfer, a reference to hoop-rolling) we decided we needed an automobile tire. "Where will we get an old tire?" I asked. Tuba-player Fred Stockton said, "This is Providence. The whole city is a junkyard." So we got in a car and drove up North Main Street until we found an empty lot and sure enough, there was an old tire.
By G-d, I miss Rhode Island.
[Why is every moment of my time at Brown 30 years ago this vivid?]
Re: Welcome to Providence
So we'll be seeing you in August?
What actually stood out is that so much of downtown (pardon me, "downcity") has been cleaned up and gentrified, but there are still these occasional abandoned lots that are testaments to Providence's past.
got stuck withis organizing it.(Plus