Letters

Hit ‘em again! Harder! Harder!

To the editor:

Here, here for the Parking Nazis! They are doing everything they can to make life a misery in downtown. I believe Mead and Scott and all the other merchants downtown. If you want people to come down there leave them alone to park and do their business!

Jean Brown

Mobile

Lovin’ the bloodshed

To the editor:

I enjoyed reading your story, “Kiss, kiss bang, bang.”(Lee, 10/25/06-11/7/06) Entertaining and very interesting.

Martin Cunningham

To the editor:

Great job on the Willie Mae/Foster Hale story! (“Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang” 10/25/06-11/7/06) Would love to know what ever happened to Willie Mae’s son, Bobbie. Did he drift by the wayside in Mobile the remainder of his life?

Again great job and would love to see more stories like this! I grew up here but these are the kind of stories you don’t hear about in school – but the kind you love to hear about!

Shelley Stephens

Mobile

Supporting Dodge

To the editor:

We found your article on Dr. Dodge (Holbert, 10/25/06-11/7/06) both interesting and insightful. As Mobile County Public School teachers, we have always found him to be professional, polite, and very smart. We like him, we support him, and we hope we don’t lose him as superintendent.

Jane deGraaf

Myra Lucas

“Why back in my day…”

To the editor:

I enjoyed reading your recent article in the Lagniappe (Real Deal, 10/25/06-11/7/06), but feel compelled to send you my comments…after staying silent all these years. From my standpoint (old but not suffering from Alzheimer’s, I don’t think), I can remember life in Mobile with out any Interstate Highways cutting through Downtown or the “new” tunnel.

Back in my era, a real man would shop and chase women in the business district….no, not that kind…..you know, the kind with stores (like Gayfers and Hamels). After you caught one, you would motor through the tunnel to eat on the Causeway at Palmers. Then it was time to head back into the city to the Tiki or Stork Club and dance.

Yep, that is what life was like before all those “promised” tourists started pouring off that Interstate and making Downtown so crowded that us locals with no money to spend started taking our business to where we could get free parking in Wragg Swamp.

About the Austal “Monopoly Hotels” lining the river….my understanding is that they are going to add long tails and snouts with teeth to them so that they will resemble voracious humongous alligators preparing to cross the river and attack what is left of our city (the Bulldozer Brigade attacked and destroyed half of it in the ‘60s to make way for progress).

As we speak (or should I say write), a renowned sculptor is preparing a 45’ fiberglass replica of Sean to sit atop one of the soon-to-be-famous gators. Unlike B’hams Vulcan holding the torch high, Sean will be holding high a helicopter pad (so the Southflight can be near all the wrecks from the gawking tourists that have wrecks making a 90-degree turn at the Gates of Hell….I mean under Fort Conde).

About the new bridge, I am so glad that the planners have agreed not to do the logical thing…you know, come off the I-10 and I-65 “too tight of a loop-d-loop, funnel strangulating, my varicose veins are popping” interchange and cut over to LB (lower Baldwin county).....because if they bring it “over” where my tax paying, Downtown shop-aholic addicted family use to spend all its money, all those tourists are going to continue stopping in and having their pictures taken with the Parking Nazis in front of our Post-Modern designed County Courthouse that sits atop where I viewed Walt’s Bambi for the first time.

Victor Savio

Mobile

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