AlpineK Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 From the Stranger .....I honestly thought that my points were simply common knowledge and that the city had long since come to terms with its image, its history, its advantages and disadvantages. If Tacoma is not a working-class, multiracial, military town with frontier predilections, then what the hell is it? All of the letters kept saying that I didn't know Tacoma, but none offered a credible alternative vision of the city. Almost all made the astounding assertion that the city was a cultural center, as exemplified by its new art museums and restored architecture. Tacoma may be many things, Mayor Baarsma, but it's not Athens. Besides, why all the fuss about art and history museums anyway? I much prefer military air shows, with their roaring jets, to the glass art by Dale Chihuly. Tacoma, it seems, still wants to be what it has tried to become since the late 19th century, when a civic booster dubbed it the City of Destiny: the cultural and financial center of the Pacific Northwest. That honor eventually went to Seattle, but whereas once-competing financial and trading centers like Portland, Spokane, and Everett have accepted their fate, Tacoma has not. Read the whole thing Quote
Attitude Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 I was in Tacoma yesterday.... What is that smell? Quote
erik Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 Attitude said: I was in Tacoma yesterday.... What is that smell? oddly enough the smell died out immediatly after you left. Quote
Sundog Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 Smell? Let's see, warm sunny day, wind from the North, must have been a Seattle smell, perhaps coffee? Quote
Dwayner Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 Seattle is passé and has been ever since Eddie Bauer went the way of the polo shirt. It might have been fun at one time but it's now as run down as the Seattle Center. It's vastly overpriced and a traffic nightmare. Tacoma is really looking good these days. Quote
Dwayner Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 Who is this Disco Diva and how would her name appear in the phone book? Quote
sobo Posted May 13, 2003 Posted May 13, 2003 Summer, Donna (I always thought she was kinda hot...) Quote
AlpineK Posted May 14, 2003 Author Posted May 14, 2003 Dwayner said: Seattle is passé and has been ever since Eddie Bauer went the way of the polo shirt. It might have been fun at one time but it's now as run down as the Seattle Center. It's vastly overpriced and a traffic nightmare. Tacoma is really looking good these days. Yet you Tacoma folk want to be just like us instead of doing your own thing. Enjoy your lame ass glass Museum... sucker Quote
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