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Well if you went to the AL site today and watched the video of Smith and Kant you would think they were the saviors of DT. Remember, Darrin Smith resigned as a councilor before finishing his term, something about having a hurt butt over getting his hurt butt handed to him in the mayoral election, or was it about a job? Can’t remember. This is also the same guy that asked his co-workers in a meeting (right after he started in the development office) “Where do people eat Downtown anyway?”

Yes, Darrin was part of the team that hid up in a 2nd story window DT and watched those crazy loopers from a distance (can’t get too close to those kids, they might make you drink some of there Mt. Dew and SoCo) and proposed all kinds of crazy rules while on the council, including baricading certain streets between 1 AM and 5 AM, nevermind if there is an emergency.

Then there’s Mr. Change the smoking rules for me Tim Kant. He says in the interview that all the loopers did was ‘Scream and Yell.’ Yeah, because when you walk past Stogeez on Friday and Saturday night you never hear anybody loud (the city actually had to change decibel levels DT because of the Stogeez patio).

While Giligan & the Skipper would love to take credit for DT, everyone knows it was the hard and diligent work of Carol Pogones that made DT into what it is today. If anything, DT would be better off without Stogeez, or Darrin Smith.

By l3wis

4 thoughts on “Giligan & the Skipper single-handily save Downtown”
  1. I’ve been in Kant’s terrible bar once. I was nursing a beer, and a good friend was standing outside the door with his. He started talking to a homeless guy who had wandered by, and Kant waddled outside to tell the guy to hit the bricks. When my friend protested that he wasn’t doing anything wrong, Kant grabbed my friend’s beer and said he can dictate who stands on “HIS” sidewalk. Needless to say, I’ll never go back.

  2. Did not know til this morning the former Barrel Drive-in was located at 11th and Menlo. Wonder what the name of that place was on the corner of 31st and Minnesota?

  3. Been to stooges once. Can’t say I ever want to go back. Watching guys smoke $5 cigar that they just paid $20 for, and their lady friends with little doggies in their purses was a complete turnoff to me.

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