not too chilly

right now....well, it's around 40 or so outside.....instead of walking around the park I'm thinking of walking around "downtown".....an article in the local paper this week said that the little two blocks or so of the old business district is 30% vacant.....there used to be a J.C. Penney's, and a movie theatre, etc.....but now there's lots of empty store fronts....I guess that's true in many places nowadays, stores were going out of business in Escondido back in 2006, before the statistical start of the Recession? Of course the idea the downtown association is pushing is to go the quaint artys-craftsy route, and try to get people to open I don't know what.....a bunch of gift shops? Trouble is, every little town around here wants to be an "historical destination" for non-existent tourists.....my idea would be to open a big honky-tonk dance hall, with a billboard for it out on the interstate......but the Baptist town fathers would never go for that.....