i was talkin bout the Gary ‘burbs ... but if C-fatigue is from Injunapolis ... maybe Paducah is a good central spot. There must be a bridge across the Ohigh at Paduke. I never made it there.
Cairo, Illinois for an afternoon in Jan ‘84. I chatted with old 4-eyes Paul Simon.
Cairo... probably about the saddest place in Illinois (well, after East Saint Louis, perhaps). What should be a premier Mississippi River town and tourism spot is a near-dead and empty model for racial disharmony. The White citizenry just closed down their businesses in the ‘60s and up and left, leaving behind a Black underclass and little incentive to restore what were scores of 19th century architecture (entire blocks of the town are overgrown grassy fields where once were thriving areas, lined with brick boulevards). I went there twice in the ‘90s (’92 and ‘93) and it was just heartbreaking. It’s a shame no one takes an interest in remaking it again.
You should have pushed Mr. Bow Tie into the hateful Mississip’.
Charles Dickens had nothing but bad things to say about Cario loooong before the 1960’s.