Denvers Five Points was once one of my favorite spots to hang out in back in the day - mostly because you had all these colorful and eccentric cats, junkies to jazz musicians, poets and struggling journalists, working class folks who kept Denver running, NOI guys slinging bean pies, angry Iranian cooks chasing Mexican dwarves down the street with meat cleavers (true story). I could always find a good story. And now...? Hell, theres a reason I have no desire to spend too much time in city proper. Its Whitewash City, so kitsch and artisan its basically a glorified development Yuppie shopping mall, set into city blocks and old landmarks instead of some monstrous prison-shaped box. We longtime Five Points residents deeply miss the barbershop. No thanks to an overzealous mayor sucking the tit of development companies, along with the unscrupulous price gouging of properties/commercial properties -- Five Points is nowhere as diverse as it used to be, due to rich white entitlement-minded snotty yuppies moving in and taking over everything. Five Points renaissance is just code for kicking the poor and middle class out and colonializing the place with said snotty white yupwads. Its a sad thing when the very things that made Denver a neat and unique place to live are gone, only to be taken over by cardboard cutout hangouts for white yuppies. Sums it up pretty nicely. Whats really funny is in places like Denver, youre starting to see Color Flight that mimics White Flight in the 1960s and 1970s - the older suburbs are becoming more and more diverse as people flee the invading WASPy Wes Anderson Honky Hordes in city proper, while the redeveloped areas are stripped of any cultural significance or craftsmanship like a boosted Cadillac in a chop shop.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:23:53 +0000
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