First Thing Monday: Victory Park as Role Model, Steve Miller Setlist, ‘Dear American Airlines’
Word is spreading about Victory Park. At least one St. Petersburg, Fla., resident, the Home and Garden Editor of the local paper, thinks her city should look to the Uptown development as it considers whether to convert its baseball park into retail. The new Museum of Nature & Science, which just got named for H. Ross and Margot Perot (see story below), is mentioned.
Researching Dallas-boy-made-good Steve Miller for an advance interview and review of his Friday concert, I couldn’t find a setlist for his current tour anywhere. It seems young Radiohead fans are more likely to engage in such minutiae trading than Miller’s Boomer base. Well, here it is: Swingtown, Abracadabra, Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma, Serenade, The Stake, Mercury Blues, Pretty Thing (Bo Diddley), Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Jessie Hill), I Be’s Trouble aka I Can’t Be Satisfied (Muddy Waters), Stormy Monday Blues (T-Bone Walker), Fly Like an Eagle, Wild Mountain Honey, Winter Time, Dance Dance Dance, Take the Money and Run, Rock’n Me, Jet Airliner, Jungle Love, The Joker.
Lastly, an apparently clever writer has come up with Dear American Airlines: A Novel, about a guy stuck at the airport after the North Texas-based carrier cancels his flight, and Jason Castro fans go nuts in Rockwall.
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Not everyone in Dallas is a great believer in Victory Park. I would advocate a more city wide
change that would allow for all the benefits of the open spaces of Victory Park but do so much more for all the citizens of Dallas.
What I suggest is that we have a pedestrian street – example Main Street – that is designated as free of all cars. It would connect the Downtown area with Fair Park.
Overnight we would have our own “Riverwalk” like San Antonio. Overnight all the area along Main would resonate with busy life. Soon this pedestrian street – would invigorate the streets on either side of it. It would also connect downtown to Fair Park. Perhaps electric cars like the airports have could transfer people along the length of the street.
I can only wonder why no one else has thought of this. Dallas usually works through big business pressure on city policy instead of city-wide city planning goals. Perhaps that is the problem in the inability to rejuvenate Downtown to Fair Park.