Quote Originally Posted by gnome View Post
I've never heard anyone call the xways cobo canals 'cept you.
I heard it from an old-timer and I just love repeating it. Were you there in the 1950s?

Yeah, Al Cobo's great achievements in business for himself were running a few candy stores. Then he worked as a bean counter. He may have understood many things, but never seemed to understand what we have come to call "urban design." Seriously. Cobo made Orville Hubbard look like Jane Jacobs.