[UA] west

[Bailey Watts]

>*Really, LA is a great place to put a UA game, if I wasn't so set on using
>Vegas.  Maybe I'll use both.  IMUAC, Vegas is the reflection of Hollywood
>anyway...think about it...Vegas got rid of the glitz and went to family fun
>and special effects right around the time Hollywood came out with the big,
>special effects blockbusters.  When Hollywood was all Westerns and glamour,
>Las Vegas played up the Western image...

If you are thinking about LA than I heartily reccomend checking out 
zippythepinhead.com for an avatar of the fool (who actually coined the 
phrase "are we having fun yet?") and abandoned bits of pop culture such as 
the Doggy Diner sign.  Those abandoned things make me smile.

Topic jump: Near my home is a shopping mall that has clearly passed its 
prime.  It still has a few stores in it that cling to life, but the majority 
of the storefronts are shut up.  There was once a Woolworth's department 
store in the center that took up three floors.  When it shut down no other 
store took its place.  Since it was the center of this mall (a mile long 
corridor with side passages that housed things like GNC) it pretty much 
meant that you could only walk from one end of the mall to the other on the 
ground floor.  In turn more stores left.

Now the whole place is very much empty.  There are a few photo booths and 
some fast food places (Pretzel Time, Bagel world, Orange Julius, Lucky 
Pizza, and The China Corner), the ubiquitous Waldenbooks and the campaign 
headquaters of a couple doomed third party third party candidates.  They 
lost the last bit of youth clientele when they became the last shopping mall 
to prohibit smoking.  Last time I was there one of the movie theatres was 
converted to a church while the other became a travel agency.

It's damn surreal and I would reccomend anyone to visit there to take it in 
and get some popcorn from the popcorn store.
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