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Will California Avenue’s vibe survive?
Editor:
How unhappy I was to read the article, “Printer’s Cafe Set To Shuttle” in your paper dated 3/15/24. I have lived in Palo Alto since 1984, and I have seen a lot of losses of really unique local businesses, especially downtown (Cafe Verona, The Artifactory, and the original St. Michael’s coffeehouse, for example).
Printer’s Cafe is an iconic California Avenue place for friends to meet, solo eaters to eat in peace and quiet, students and anyone looking for a relaxed lunch location where you could eat indoors or out on the patio. But on the very next page, another sad announcement, “Gallery House To Move To Menlo Park.” Yikes! We will be losing a great local art gallery displaying paintings, sculptures, jewelry and whimsical ceramics, handily located behind the cafe. Many of the offerings were affordable, it felt great to support local artists, and it was a nice place to stroll through after a lunch or an excellent cup of coffee.
And all this is going to be replaced by a spectacle of spandex-coated posteriors running on treadmills? Feh! Where is the Historical Society, or at least some local citizens, who would like to see some of the real California Avenue vibe survive?
Dana St. George
Campesino Avenue, Palo Alto
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Depending on the posterior, spandex-coated posteriors can be considered art. Some, not so much, so, ugly people to the rear so to speak, so to speak.
For the Bike Coalition – you can focus on this street to perpetuate your political clout. No hotels on CA, no major restaurants on CA, little tax generation from this street. Nothing there now that you want to buy when it goes out of business? Since the whole street is going out of business then go for it. If out-of-state developers buy it all up and put in massive apartments then a royal scam has been successfully perpetuated. I watched the Transportation Meeting on TV 03/27/24 which was continually disrupted by poor connections. What I did get was a person saying that their child lost control of their bike and hit a car. The moderator corrected her to say that the car hit the child on the bike. That is what we are dealing with now. What ever they are telling you is packaged for delivery.