hotel congress, tucson

[diskothiq]

man i've been coming here since the '90s, not always for work, and much of what i loved about it stemmed from its peculiar and remarkable resistance to the passage of time. had a strange intuition things would be different now coming back for the first time since 2008 and sure enough the entire neighborhood is physically transformed with fancy tall

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[yoshimi]

gorgeous picture. whenever i go back now, i feel like dorothy from the wizard of oz.

[boobirdsfly]

Oh man, that's what I loved about Tucson when I was there too!
Stupid changing world.

[erinmack]

I lived in Tucson for a year in 1994 - just before dropping out of U of A, & just after. I spent a lot of time wandering & enjoying how boring it was - a very formative time, probably, if in a terribly understated way. What I remember most of all was the dark, decrepit 4th Ave. underpass, just a block or two past the Food Conspiracy Co-op & the Value Village. When I went back in 2006 & it had been replaced with a slick, well-lit, undoubtedly _safer_ (how many people got knifed in the old one? don't wanna know) tunnel, I was heartbroken.

RIP charming dilapidated Tucson of our youth.

[trywhy]

What's crazy is that all the same families I've known my whole life still live in the same houses. It's some sort of creepy uneasy gentrification I don't understand. I keep wating for the other shoes to drop, for my friends to move away.