We’re now into the second month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week we revisit some old Downtown construction blues so that the current mess will just seem par for the course. So stay tuned as we keep looking back at the accumulated pluck and pizzazz that will power this still free and still free-thinking institution into the next 20 years.
Paging through the archives
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“’The rest of us want to get finished fast,’ says Rick Jones, an executive with Management Services, a major property management firm located next to the muddy pit that is [Oliver] Kuttner’s construction site. ‘It’s an inconvenience,’ says Jones of the mess. ‘It’s an eyesore; it’s unattractive. He sort of owes it to Downtown to do it expeditiously.’
…Kuttner says the critics just don’t understand—that what he’s attempting will transform what Charlottesville old-timers call the Woolworth’s building into as many as 11 retail spaces and 28 apartments. Since he began excavating nearly a year ago, Kuttner’s been building above and below an existing business, a shore store that’s one of the last gasps of the shrunken Woolworth’s empire: Foot Locker.”
Hawes Spencer, February 8, 2000
Getting covered
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We swore that during this anniversary year we would take take some pot shots at ourselves as well as preen our feathers. This February 19, 1992, cover isn’t exactly a miracle of art direction. In fact, there’s essentially no art to it, and the design is rudimentary at best. The less loquacious of you out there might appreciate its brevity, but grammarians everywhere would agree that the exclamation point is working way too hard. If you’ve never thought to appreciate the design of our covers now, a little comparison should help spur you in that direction.
