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SOWA Winter Festival
By Winter Man on Sun, 12/03/2017 - 12:30pm
Quite a line for the SOWA Winter Festival in the South End.
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The crowds inside
I'm sorry...
Where is SOWA again?
If you had internet access
you could google it.
Yes, I should do that
because clearly it's the only the social media drones who don't recognize that snappy term as yet another attempt by some vampire realtors to try and turn the neighborhood where they can't wait to get rid of the Pine Street Inn into some kind of hip, Manhattan neighborhood swap meet like the ones in SoHo.
Or am I wrong?
what would you call this area instead?
Yes, it's part of the South End, but it's only a small part of the South End. A few square blocks that are dominated by art galleries and studio buildings.
SoPiSt
No?
Wow!
I never knew that! I should have just assumed all those years I bought comics and paperbacks with the covers ripped off at Sid's Smoke Shop starting back in 1968 that the neighborhood would always be known as SoWa or the Ink Block or whatever the fuck the developers who are ruining this town decide to call it.
You know, to make it seem more like Manhattan to the upscale rubes?
I believe GTI has the
I believe GTI has the trademark on SoWa, and given that they own the vast majority of the land and buildings that make up SoWa, I would hardly call this a concerted effort among the areas realtors to make people think the Pine St Inn doesn't exist. Additionally, the SoWa name has been around for well over a decade, when this area was far less desirable than it is now. Sometimes a name is just a name....
Less desirable
to who? And I stand corrected, it's just one scumbag realtor who is trying to turn their investment into part of Manhattan to fool the newly arrived rubes. Forgive my impertinence.
Wasn't this a largely abandoned industrial area
before it was refashioned as SoWa? I like having a section of the city devoted to art galleries. They used to mostly be on Newbury Street but got priced out there.
No.
It was never "refashioned" as SoWa. Just look at the Wiki entry for it. Complete and utter PR nonsense written by the same scumbags that would love to get rid of Castle Court and every low income POC in the South End and try to turn it into Williamsburg.
As far as abandoned industrial area, that's all this town was until the 80's.
Take a deep breath BriGuy
There's no need to be this worked up over a name on a Monday morning,
Worked up?
This is pretty much my usual state until noon, when the baking starts.
SoWat
Hey!
56 is the new forty!
You've got a point there
You'd think that we Bostonians, who have a bit of a..... (trying to come up with another word than "complex") ... complex, about New York, would avoid such NY-ish types of things. But here we are embracing it. Quick, let's have an East Village while we're at it!
What "we"?
Sorry, no. Some people in Boston have "a bit of a complex" about New York. Others are convinced of their own inherent superiority. Still others simply don't care. But above all, what you need to realize is that these rousifications and tacky-upscalings are driven by a few people who believe it'll help them sell something. No one advances something like "SoWa" either out of an inferiority complex or out of sincerely held conviction. It's all cynical, and the sooner you realize that, the sooner you'll realize how silly it is to frame this as a product of the regional psyche.
Harry the Greeks
Bring it back
Let's not forget
the Empire Deli.
their markets have been going
their markets have been going on for quite a few years (over 6?), so i guess you haven't been to the south end on a weekend in awhile
The address they give on
The address they give on their web site is 530 Harrison Avenue Boston, which is just past Washington Street. My interest is piqued though so I don't care what the wags here say about it. I'm going, crappy neighborhood or not !
A Winter Festival...
...in the fall.
It's December
...and Santa Claus isn't bringing toys to cranky children.
Baseball spring training
technically starts in the winter and is most of the way done by the time the vernal equinox arrives. Nevertheless, most people understand what it means.
It is winter
Winter starts December 1 - at least as far as NOAA and NWS are concerned.
Meteorological Winter.
GTI Really dropped the Ball
This event was a total mess. Traffic was a nightmare throughout the entire neighborhood, no cops anywhere helping to move things along. There wasn't anyone from Parking Enforcement monitoring resident parking, so out of towners were taking whatever spot they could find, leaving nothing for the people who actually live in the area. The employees working the event either didn't know what was going on, or didn't have the authority to make any decisions. Lines waiting over 1.5 hours to get into this event. It was complete chaos.
Resident parking?
Isn't that always not in effect on Sundays?
In my experience (in the South End, at least), resident
permit parking restrictions are in effect seven days a week. (I think Somerville is one city that suspends those rules for Sundays.)
There are several big public lots near the SoWa events.
I agree that the name SoWa is dumb-sounding, but it's been called that for 15 years now. Sort of surprising to see people still getting worked up over it.
Cambridge
You are thinking of Cambridge. Resident parking in Boston is in effect all the time. On the other hand, you can reasonably expect that there are a number days, such as Sundays, where it isn't enforced.
Sadly, because Boston Parking
Sadly, because Boston Parking officers have the day off on Sunday, and enforcement is left entirely to the Boston Police, unless you are blocking a fire hydrant or causing some other kind of imminent safety hazard, you're unlikely to get a ticket of any kind. Sundays are basically free-for-all parking in Boston.
I live in WA.
I live on Washington St. Does that mean i just live in WA?
MidWa
MidWa
OnWa
OnWa
Depends on which side of Washington St.
You might live in Nowa. (T)
There really is no north or south of Washington
Washington itself generally runs north-south (hence the change of cardinal direction in the name of the streets that cross Washington). I live on East Brookline St, which is east of Washington. Eawa maybe? Would West Brookline St be Wewa? Those sound even stupider than sowa, but they make more sense.
wa wa
I don't need no wa wa.
You don't like skiing?
Wa-wa-Wachusett!
No Wawa here
Closest one appears to be in New Jersey