Replying to a message of Dan Ceppa to Bob Ackley:

 DC> -> On 31 May 09  04:05:38, Bob Ackley got back to Bob Klahn 
 DC> -> Re: Unfathomable

 BA>> on several occasions I had people I didn't know park in my *back*
 BA>> yard (access off the public alley) without permission - and I
 BA>> couldn't get

 DC> When the Travers Race was still the "4th Jewel of the Triple
Crown", 
 DC> people were getting as much as $50 to park your car on their lawn!

During the College World Series citizens living in houses near Rosenblatt
Stadium used to allow parking on their (tiny) front lawns for a fee.  There
was a vacant lot near the stadium that filled up with motor homes - usually
CWS regulars who came every year, and that 'settlement' became known as 
'Dingerville' after one of its first residents (the 'Dingerville' area was noticeably
cleaner when the residents left after the CWS than when they arrived).  Then the
city made all that illegal, condemned that vacant lot (which had been vacant for
at least a decade) and planted trees on it.  Now the city is going to tear Rosenblatt
down and move the CWS to a brand new stadium just off beautiful downtown Omaha
(the Omaha Royals, the other resident of Rosenblatt, will apparently be moving to a
new stadium located near I-80 well outside Omaha's city limits - which means that
the city's brand new multizillion dollar stadium will be used for all of
five days a year)
and there isn't any free parking within miles of the place - no convenient public 
transportation, either.  Note also that the new stadium will eliminate
about 1/4 of the
already insufficient (paid) parking for Omaha's convention center.

One advantage to the new stadium is that a person will be able to stand on the
west end of Bobby's Bridge (a multimillion dollar pedestrian bridge over the Missouri
River that has no particular attraction on either end of it, named for
former Nebraska
governor and senator Bob Kerry, who pushed through federal funding for it before he 
left the senate), look just to the southwest and see Daub's Disaster
(Omaha's convention center) and look just to the northwest and see Fahey's
Fiasco (the new baseball stadium),


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