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More angst in Jamaica Plain
By adamg on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 10:48pm
What now, you ask? The Globe reports some people are upset about a proposed beer and wine emporium right down the street from the Curley School. Yes, just like City Feed, only without all those soul-satisfying organic sandwiches.
The proposed store's owner says he's well prepared to stop third graders from buying malt beverages.
Meanwhile, next door in Roslindale, nobody has yet objected to Sugar's request to serve beer and wine right around the corner from the Sumner.
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When did the Globe research
When did the Globe research this article? I'm pretty sure that I walked by where the beer & wine store is supposed to open (the former chiropractor office & before that a thrift shop) yesterday, and there was a sign for a nail salon coming soon.
Speaking of nail salons. Can we start a movement to prevent another hair or nail salon from opening up on South/Centre Streets? I think that starting from Forest Hills going to the Behan, we must have over a dozen.
The nail salon is next
The nail salon is next door...in the middle. The beer and wine store would be on the corner of that building.
It's so foolish. Is this why
It's so foolish. Is this why Centre Street is so boring? I despise these whiners who come to the city and insist on keeping any of the amenities that drew them here as far from their own door as possible. And why? Does anyone seriously think that there are going to be drunk kids wobbling down the street if this wine store opens? This is a cause that southern baptist knuckle draggers in rural Alabama would get behind--it's hilarious how right wing nuts and leftie nuts meet together at the far reaches of their misguided raving.
I say we should just do what JP does best lately and just put another tanning salon in that location if this wine thing falls through.
Exactly. Jamaicaway Books is
Exactly. Jamaicaway Books is getting a new beauty parlor. Really? We don't need any more of them, and we don't need any more banks. What we need is MORE BARS. London is such a fun city with multiple pubs up and down the streets. They are community gathering places. We don't need more real estate agencies on street level either.
We need more BEER!
England kicked the Puritan assholes out
Guess where they ended up?
"southern baptist knuckle draggers" in a JP wine shop thread?
Quantum, meet Leap. Way to go working in the "right wing nuts" reference too. Very relevant.
Actually LIng OL
And you were on it like white on rice in a matter of what...? 45 minutes? Do you have a Google alert set for "southern baptist knuckle draggers" so you can spring to their defense?
Silly JPers!
There are at least nine establishments distributing alcohol in some fashion within a 3 minute walk from my house. My children are of course all youth alcoholics, and our street is a veritable Bourbon Street most weekend nights.
If only Nicole Ferrer and some puritanical neighbors had put a stop to things. Then again, maybe I should just take the responsibility of teaching my kids the difference between healthy drinking and harmful, addictive drinking. No, far better to blame society rather than my own failings. What a crock.
Everybody Knows ...
That any and all alcohol sales establishments attract derelict winos and bums who hang around the front door, glamorizing their lifestyle to passing children.
Yes, daddy, I want to be a WINO when I grow up!
Here we go again
Fighting business in the Hyde Square/Canary Square area. I really hope this guy can pass this. I'd love to see a nicer beer store in the neighborhood other than the pathetic one up by the rotary.
Whose beers
Will they let this store open if the store promises to sell 'culturally appropriate' beverages like Tecate and el Presidente?
Not close enough to Hyde Square
When Whole Foods held its infamous community meeting at the Curley, some people (OK, that one guy from the Hyde Square Task Force) complained the location was unfair because it was too far away from Hyde Square (granted, that one guy was also the guy who, when he was on the School Committee, yelled at some white mother to shut up because if he'd wanted to hear from a privileged white woman, he would have asked her for her opinion).
The guy is Claudio Martinez
The ranting guy is Claudio Martinez, who is the head of Hyde Square Task Force. He is still a member of the Boston School Committee, where he also pushes his "whites are bad" line. Nice that he has so many venues to express his constructive ideas.
It was especially funny when he did the rant against Whole Foods at the community meeting, since WF had just given Hyde Square Task Force lots of money. Claudio changed his tune soon after the rant meeting, perhaps because even he was embarrassed to be biting the hand that fed him.
And HSTF just received another large "you guys are great" grant from some organization. Nice to see that "hate whitey" politics are still being rewarded.
Occupy Whole Foods
I assume that Occupy Whole Foods will be soon occupying HSTF - yes? Because, y'know, they really ought to give that $200K back to Bank of America. Yes. Bank of America.
+1 Days best use of snark so
+1
Days best use of snark so far. Love it.
One should remember that
One should remember that simply because there's a story about it doesn't mean that there's actually a real issue at play. Anyone can get together a couple of quotes from people to make it out to be that there is a "groundswell" of opinion in one direction or another.
Then, of course, everyone on here comes on and flips out when instead they should probably just be shrugging their shoulders and moving on.
So what are the "real issues"?
Other than absurd over-interest in the types of businesses that people try to start in vacant retail locations? Because that's why UHub tends to "flip out".
What you say is true. There
What you say is true. There probably aren't many who are causing trouble. But there are idiots on the JPNC who are taking them seriously. The Gazette had an article about it.