tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post2118765921870759796..comments2024-02-20T21:48:16.978-05:00Comments on The Beak Speaks: Disappearing Worldsbeakerkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-3132861057185467522012-12-03T07:38:59.981-05:002012-12-03T07:38:59.981-05:00There are "ruins" everywhere. Check out...There are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oncewas/" rel="nofollow">"ruins"</a> everywhere. Check out what that particular photographer catalogs in Virginia alone!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-60349418870725199882012-12-02T21:39:38.069-05:002012-12-02T21:39:38.069-05:00It is not just the Jewish deli. I need a road map ...It is not just the Jewish deli. I need a road map to find a classic Italian Pork store.<br /><br />Local restaurants with proud histories are going extinct and apparently it is not NYC only. How many Marc Jacobs and Hipster joints are enough.<br /><br />There is something special about siting in a seat at Nathans with my kid and explaining it was here when<br />my grandmother got off the boat. A McDonalds never ever gets the charm of a Greek Diner. These businesses are a piece of our homes and lives.beakerkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-70305388312938866002012-12-02T21:21:08.633-05:002012-12-02T21:21:08.633-05:00Cheer up, Beak. Guy Fieri's new place is still...Cheer up, Beak. Guy Fieri's new place is still there serving crap.<br /><br />This closing is probably due to a string of poor Broadway seasons and declining tourism.<br />Still, the story of the disappearance of the Jewish deli (and other institutions) hasn't been written.<br />We are becoming a homogenized culture eating crap at franchised fast food joints. <br />Gotta think of the profits. Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-17743656187127037342012-12-02T09:30:02.050-05:002012-12-02T09:30:02.050-05:00Well, in my neck of Missouri we've seen more p...Well, in my neck of Missouri we've seen more places going belly up. Oddly, that pattern really got rolling last year while we were being told that "recovery" was underway. Now closings, layoffs or "reorganization" are spreading to other shops and businesses. Demand on the local food banks has more than doubled this year. Gee, you don't suppose any of the presidents' policies have anything to do with this do you? Naw, can't be. Otherwise people like Jamie Foxx wouldn't be calling him "our lord and savior" and marching bands wouldn't be spelling out his name on the field and the news media would have called him on this. Alligatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764752508206031685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11044955.post-52698333114953453222012-12-02T07:30:22.362-05:002012-12-02T07:30:22.362-05:00I think that the same is true all over the United ...I think that the same is true all over the United States. Over the past 15 years or so, almost all of our favorite eating places here in Northern Virginia are no more.<br /><br />Progress -- supposedly, anyway.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.com