At last a place for us

I have this dream/vision/idea, whatever you want to call it.
I want to create a place that should exist but doesn't. Where everybody is friendly, nobody judges you, you can stay for as long as you want, there is always good music playing, your parents won't bother you, and you can just relax and have fun. Sit all day long in the street with your guitar and nobody will bother you.
Think Haight-Ashbury. That sort of a scene.
See, I'm an entrepeneur at heart. For now I'm just selling stuff (not drugs, i dont deal them i just do them) at festivals and saving up for a campervan.. when I graduate I wanna go on the road then go to college in california and maybe run a business on the internet sellign stuff from home... but anyways I'd like to go to college for business. My main focus is to open up some record stores. My stores will be the greatest because loitering will be ENCOURAGED so kids can come and hangout all day long and not be bothered by their parents... there will be rooms with couches where u can sample cds.. and live music events.. but back to the "vision":
What if I took over an entire street? or two? Just open up businesses all down the street so I would basically own it. A record/cd/dvd/band memorabilia store, a bar with live bands, An instrument store, a headshop of course, a good vegan restaurant, a skate park.. an arts/crafts supply store with cool beads and fabric, A vintage clothing store, a chill cafe, a recording studio, A RADIO STATION (theres more to that later)a whole street of places where you can hangout all day and night, and every place will have like corners with pillows on the floor and beanbags, totally trippy paint... I know if there was a place like this, me and my friends would be there everyday. The street will just be closed off, there will be a stage outside and either a dj playing music or a live band at all times,with drum circles and ppl playing hacky sack and dancing in the street... it would be great if I could do this at a place right on the ocean so bands could play on the beach and we could have bonfires, but on the other hand, I could just buy a lot of land and put my own road on it so i dont have to deal with the town as much. Thats probably what I'm going to do. Land with lots of fields and woods... a large fence around it... we could even have festivals and charge ppl to get in during them...
I think this would be the coolest thing EVER!
It would attract my kind of ppl.
I would be my own boss. If I wanted to I could just get fucked up and walk around, grab a guitar from my store, go jam on the stage, put on good music, have huge parties/events... like a huge protest/free concert in the street for legalizing pot haha, or reggae festivals, VW van contests, random holidays like "Jerry Garcia Day" haha...people dancing and partying in the streets and on the roof...
To me that sounds like the greatest place ever.
If I could open up a few in the U.S. I bet it would cause some kind of a "movement".
I would definitely try to open one eventually on Haight/Ashbury because that would just be cool. So much history.
All the hippies would come out of their hiding places and come and groove in the streets
And I will hire people to go sell acid on these streets!! hahaha I'm sorry but you know what I'm saying, it needs to be easier to get.
Also there will be vendors at the sidewalks like you would see at festivals.

OH and here's my favorite idea: There could be a radio station and the headquarters would be located on the street. We'll play reggae, classic rock, and jam bands. The DJs would be able to advertise all sales going on, any events/concerts coming up, they could get more people to come down.
This would be the best way to let people know about it, because you know they're gonna be cool people since they listen to that station haha.
Maybe we could call it Shakedown Street.
Who's ready for this?!
Oh and you can leave negative replies to this, I dont care what any of you say, this IS possible and I believe in myself 110%

 

are you really 17?

 

okay, i call working in the record store! save me a job ;P heh

 

Closed off street, hippies everywhere, mad headshops? Sounds like Church Street in Burlington right?!

 

ditto

 

actually no. I'm 16 lol

 

eutopia

i didn't read the whole thing
too lazy

 

Haight-Ashbury is a shithole. I'm not afraid to speak the truth, positive or negative... if it was evident enough to George Harrison when he ventured there in '67, it's even more evident today to everyone who sets foot there. Not to say it's bad for any of you, it's just not what everyone thinks.

I really don't understand why so many people are obsessed with California either. I could understand if you were born there, but wtf. Someone from California always goes to Alaska buys up a bunch of property, think they know what they're doing, and they ruin towns...

Tim Treadwell is one example of what seemed like an alright guy from Malibu who vowed to bears and god to give his life for a good cause, but didn't know what the hell he was really doing...

 

I love you sometimes, George.

I doubt it.

 

i'm offended when people talk about Californians that way.

its not just Californians making small towns more not small town-ish. its called population. it grows. so the towns grow.

Haight Ashbury isn't bad btw. A lot of it has been commercialized now cause of all the tourists (i hate tourists). But if you're afraid of homeless people, i guess then it is a shithole. I talk to them. More interesting than the people in the Financial District across the city.
You want a shithole, drive across the Bay Bridge to the East Bay. Oakland, Freemont, etc. fun...

 

I have a serious hate-on for every Californian I've met in real life.

 

i'm californian

 

Tempered with Idaho.

 

I live here cause of my parents. I've spent 15 years out of 20 in California. I have never seen Idaho as home.

 

Idaho rubs off on people like sunburn. You think it goes away, but next thing you know, you're melanomic.

 

dont say that. thats depressing. i hate this state.

lets trade, i'll be the canadian. you be the idaho-burnt one.

 

I wouldn't trade my hometown for anything. I'm waiting for a ride, and then I'm going to drink beer at the lake.

 

well, whatever
but when this goes on, give me a call, and ill be there
:sunglasse

 

im giving out bets that 500000000 to one that never happens

 

be more optimistic