tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826793.post6638616695039175512..comments2023-10-02T08:28:06.724-05:00Comments on Ecology of Absence: When Have You Been to Laclede's Landing?Michael R. Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17262548806079447404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826793.post-20535398853548028472007-04-20T18:20:00.000-05:002007-04-20T18:20:00.000-05:00Last time on the Landing... December 1st, 2006 to ...Last time on the Landing... December 1st, 2006 to see the New York Dolls at Mississippi Nights. Susbtitute bands names and dates, and for the past 10 years, Mississippi Nights was the only reason I went there. The Nights is gone, and so am I from the Landing.tobyweiss.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08546216965492818263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826793.post-68194279441451521492007-04-20T10:11:00.000-05:002007-04-20T10:11:00.000-05:00I was there for a blues festival last year. We sa...I was there for a blues festival last year. We saw the Fabulous Thunderbirds.<BR/><BR/>It was hot and sultry. Great blues weather. It was at night, and there were stages set up in mutliple areas.<BR/><BR/>I bumped into some friends, including a fellow performing who was onstage at the event.<BR/><BR/>The main stage was awesome. It was in a well defined area, about 1-2 acres in sixe, surrounded by a multi-story parking garage on the south side, a tall brick wall on the west side, buildings on the north side, and an elevated train track on the east side, directly above the stage.<BR/><BR/>The blues performers were framed by working freight trains, and about every 20 minutes, another slow moving freight train would pass by right in the middle of a musical number.<BR/><BR/>It was a phenomenally authentic setting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826793.post-9842618458432495672007-04-20T06:46:00.000-05:002007-04-20T06:46:00.000-05:00From the outside looking in one would have to conc...From the outside looking in one would have to conclude that this was a simple mistake by city leaders. From the inside we all know that this strategy of isolating neighborhoods is common throughout the StL region. Highways come first!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826793.post-21695823102498239532007-04-19T21:34:00.000-05:002007-04-19T21:34:00.000-05:00Amen, you nailed it on the head. Is there still a...Amen, you nailed it on the head. Is there still a wax museum with the Pope in the front window down there?Mark Grothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15778135869139492251noreply@blogger.com