Community Board
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 6 January 2010 — 1 comment below »
The city of Crockett has a handsome community board that is prominently located on Pomona Street (across from the high school). It is one of my favorite parts of a very charming city…
I think it would be neat to have something similar in our planned transit plaza: an old-fashioned message board, possibly covered beneath the bus shelter or on the opposite wall of the restrooms (or in place of the restrooms themselves, which are somewhat awkwardly located as currently designed). The board can feature city news and posters advertising city events, e.g., Fireworks on the Point this July 4, Coastal Cleanup Day, etc.
The board does not necessarily have to allow for anyone to put up an ad for services (babysitting with tear-away phone numbers, lost pet, etc.), although it certainly could. Instead, the board could be used more for official news and events, possibly protected behind glass.
The message boards currently used around the city are fold-out easels placed at intersections (exclusively car-centric). A permanent community board in the transit plaza would be a feature that residents and commuters will use on a daily basis, and potentially provide reasons for visitors to return.
The transit plaza will see a great amount of foot traffic, and a well-located and nicely situated community board can prove to be a great tool in promoting our fine city, as well as may become a source of community pride.
Jeff, you are brilliant! This is the genuine article, a real tangible for me, if only in my mind for now. Thank you dearly.
This serves up as a symbolic antithesis or NYC send-up to the ‘who contracted these people’, aloof, artist-ego and car-centric Waterfront Plaza architect group who doggedly placates me. I am weary of them wasting our time and talents. I appreciate the precious, moldy, indigenous redwood, as in Sequoia, and quaint gothic lettering. A brazen, baby boomer many call a throw-back, I relate to the ‘company town’ of 1901-1972 Hercules. These remnants resonate fiercely in these hard times at the brink of this new century. I’m so excited to fire back up my ‘Sugar City Bop’ this Sunday 3-7pm, an authentic record hop social featuring rockin’ c1948-1968 American Music on real vinyl records (and CDs) that encourages couples dancing at Toot’s Tavern c1901, 2nd St. @ Ceres St., Crockett. I am pleased to have been personally asked by a prominent board member to apply for an opening on The Pinole Historical Society BOD. Strange but true, I still don’t know where our Hercules Chamber of Commerce is located nor have I heard anything of our own Hercules Historical Society until just recently. Without visibility, I surmised we didn’t have one. But, I do love how these new Far West Coast pioneers are driving this burg back to our mid-century, simpler values of Western Civilization. Imagine, a real neighborhood where folks walk and bike and say howdy do with and really mean it.
Rockin’ regards, Althea ‘DJ VidaLee’ Hathaway on West Promenade St.