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It's Not So Bad Being Trendy
Last weekend David, Eileen, Berney, Shannon, and I visited the hippest most indie place on the loop: Pin-Up Bowl. It was a bowling alley with style and flair (except in the actual bowling equipment, which was recycled from old bowling alleys), complete with retro t-shirts, fancy furniture, people sipping martinis, and an mp3-powered digital jukebox playing the Strokes. Since I am probably the least indie person on Earth, the hipness was lost on me, but if you listen to Jet or the White Stripes, you will love Pin-Up Bowl.
But all kidding aside, it's nice that they are reclaiming Delmar east of Church's Chicken. Across the street from the Pageant they recently put in some sort of art gallery-type place, and the stores there have swanky new storefronts that are nicer than the rest of the inappropriately-named "Loop". Now if only they could do something about that traffic...
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The concept of the Pin Up Bowl was lost on me, too, when I went. Mainly because it cost $50 for 5 people to bowl for an hour, and in that hour we rolled only five frames because they had to stop to fix the pinsetters every ten minutes.
For $10/person, you can practically bowl all night at any other place, and still get the indie appeal by picking up a $7 pitcher of Pabst.
Posted by: ben at May 8, 2004 12:53 AM
I wondered what that place was about. That part of the loop is indeed turning around.
Posted by: rkc at May 8, 2004 6:30 AM
The slow traffic on Delmar, through the loop area, actually is a good thing - when people drive slowly through an area, they're more likely to look in store fronts, and more likely to see things they might want. Parking in the loop isn't really difficult, so they might very well stop for a bit, grab a smoothie, and some used clothes or something. Believe it or not, street-level traffic jams in commercial districts are good for the economy.
The environment can suck it.
Posted by: Brian at May 10, 2004 8:31 PM
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