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20 september 2006
Water Street Project Incorporates Canal System
At last night’s City Council meeting, council members voted unanimously to devote a significant portion of the project’s budget to developing a network of canals between planned condo units.
Said one council member, “Let’s make Water Street live up to its name. We have as our neighbor the Athens of the Midwest. Ypsi can become the Venice of the Midwest.”
The visionary plan involves the razing of Haab’s for a Water Street resident parking lot, and a system of gondola taxis to ferry condo residents to and from their homes.
“With the downsizing of local auto plants, our plan creates jobs for gondola-drivers,” said one Water Street insider. “It’s a new chapter in Michigan’s long history as a transportation innovator.”
Local sustainability expert Leslie Bismarck spoke at the meeting. approving of the plan’s inclusion of a car-free water-taxi service to Ann Arbor, provided by local fisherman-entrepreneur Dave Mulholland, who was also present.
“They can take one of them gondolas out to the river in the morning, where I’ll be waiting in my boat,” said Mulholland. “I can boat ‘em up to Ann Arbor no problem. Only thing is, I just got a trollin’ motor, so it’ll take two, three hours. But I’ll get ‘em to work on time. Home, too. I ain’t got nothin’ better to do.”
Arborists are slated to begin harvesting Riverside Park trees next week to provide wood for the gondola fleet. The plan calls for a collaboration with local artists and high school students to decorate the boats, producing floating works of art. Local artist Ygg Mulholland, tapped to decorate one boat, intends to style his craft after the storied Confederate ironclad the Virginia. “I’ve got tinfoil to recreate the ironclad look,” he said. “There’s a rotating gun turret, too, and it shoots!”
Posted by ypsidixit at 20 september 2006 22:41
Comments
THis has to be a fake ....or has the water supply in Ypsi been laced with a hallucinogenic drug ...
RAZE HAABS ? there must be madness in the planet of (YPSI) it's a mad house I tell you a mad house .
Posted by: joe friday at 21 september 2006 07:44
Razing Haab's is for the greater good. A nice parking lot would look pretty on that corner.
Posted by: Laura at 21 september 2006 08:04
Barry LaRue also suggested actors dressed like riverrafters with longpoles to shuttle tourists to Ford Lake and Belleville "just like the olden days."
Most founding fathers/mothers came from New York along the Erie Canal and into the wild midwest to settle here. It's a great idea!
Venice is a neat twist ... we can't get really good Italian food in the area, so it would be a great bonus.
Posted by: Ed Penet at 21 september 2006 09:06
Ed: Ooh, what a good idea from Mr. LaRue. I can just picture that.
However, the river was roughly five feet higher in those pre-dam days. I wonder if it's deep enough now to float a raft loaded with day-trippers. Details, details. A dam and lock system could easily be installed at the northern end of Ford Lake.
I really like your idea of Italian food. You are right--I couldn't get some lasagna (my favorite) in Ypsi if my life depended on it. The plan should include a fine Italian restaurant among the condos, in line with the plan to incorporate some retail.
Posted by: Laura at 21 september 2006 10:02
I am thinking that I have got to get some of this Water they're drinking from the water street project ...safe, legal,semi-transparent.....hallucinogenic ... : )
Posted by: joe friday at 21 september 2006 10:29
Joe: That's actually a great idea! Bottle it up and sell it! It would fit right in with Ypsi's storied bathhouses and mineral springs of bygone days! Ship it around the country! It's a new source of city revenue! You could call it, hmm, "Doc Friday's Mentholated Extract of Cyprinus"!
No wonder they raised the water rates.
Posted by: Laura at 21 september 2006 10:33
Ad tagline: "Huron the right track with Doc Friday's Mentholated Extract of Cyprinus!"
Posted by: Laura at 21 september 2006 10:35
Ouch.
Posted by: Lisa Marshall Bashert at 21 september 2006 11:11
Burma Shave style street ad:
"Carping at pains
And vanished youth?
Doc Friday's the cure,
The finest, forsooth."
Posted by: Laura at 21 september 2006 11:20
My apologies to Burma Shave .....
IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHOSE SIGNS THESE ARE
YOU CANT HAVE DRIVEN
VERY FAR,
DRINK DOC FRIDAYS !
AT A QUIZ
PA AINT NO WHIZ
BUT HE KNOWS HOW
TO KEEP MA HIS,
DOC FRIDAY'S
Posted by: joe friday at 23 september 2006 09:00
Joe F.: Oh, how funny! Those are great! I had to laugh!
As it so happens I'm enjoying a cool, refreshing glass of Doc Friday's at this very moment, and it's goin' down real smooth. Yes, sir, A fine and health-giving beverage.
Posted by: Laura at 23 september 2006 17:22
and it's semi-transparent qualities are from the bromides in our natural spring waters,at the Ypsi-Iron site .....
it could be rust to ....
Posted by: joe friday at 24 september 2006 11:14
It must be the bromides that make it so flavorful. Or maybe the twice-filtered extract of carp micturition.
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