Top 5 Signs Downtown Has Changed

[ksearls]

Hey Guys!

Need to pick your brains for a quick top five for the Dean A. McGee awards tomorrow night! Looking for Lettermanesque humor for a top 5 list of how Downtown has changed. Below are last year's top five. Get ready, get set, GO!!!


TOP 5 SIGNS DOWNTOWN HAS CHANGED
5) THE CITY HAS SAVED MILLIONS NO LONGER HAVING TO MOW THE OKLAHOMA RIVER
4) THE HORNETS: “BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST… “
OH NEVERMIND, WE STILL WANT OUR OWN TEAM!
3) IT ONLY TOOK A COUPLE FIRES AND A CONCRETE STAGE SURROUNDED BY WATER, BUT SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK IS FINALLY DOWNTOWN
2) “DOWNTOWN LIVING” NO LONGER MEANS A STINT IN THE COUNTY JAIL
1) EVERYONE’S WORKING TO MAKE OUR STREETS MORE COLORFUL, BUT WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT OF MAKING THE UNDERGROUND FLOURESCENT? OF COURSE…RAND ELLIOTT!

[sethsrott]

I love #2!

[Pete]

5. When someone says they're staying downtown, you now have to ask them "Where"?
4. Mentioning an event at the Skirvin isn't necessarily a reference to a 1970's high school prom.
3. Automobile Alley now provides reasons to actually get out of your automobile.
2. Midtown: Heritage Hills' hip little brother!
1. Sure a water taxi sounds fun! But which one??

[Will]

I got a good laugh from #5 and #2.

[Steve]

While at Farmers Market, I was asked whether Rand's designs for Kerr Park will result in it giving off a florescent red glow that will be seen from space. The person was joking. But I'll rule nothing out until I hear otherwise.
-Steve

[Will]

How about:

The term "Nightlife" no longer refers to crickets.

[ksearls]

Like them! Keep em coming!

[Kerry]

We laid off the fairy god-mother. Downtown no longer turns in to a pumpkin at midnight.

Concerned residents have finally stopped calling 911 to report large rectangular shapped UFOs with bright lights that only appear after sunset.

I saw an add in the Oklahoman for a high-rise construction crane operator. Apply at 20 N. Broadway.

[Pete]

From a river to mow to Boathouse Row.

[Kerry]

People in Seattle can now find OKC on a map.

[johnnyincog]

People in Seattle can now find OKC on a map.

nice. also:

best Seattle import is no longer Starbucks.

[bwana_bob]

7. Most people DON'T assume that the rising mound of dirt for the Native American Cultural Center is just another landfill.
6. A beautification project means more than just boarding up broken windows and spraying Roundup on the cracks in the pavement.
5. Downtown residents now want a shopping cart AND the grocery store that goes with it.
4. Our mayor gets exposure on Ellen and CNN, not Dannysday.
3. We actually need signs to direct visitors to attractions, not the suburbs
2. Riverboats spotted in Oklahoma City are NOT the result of an archaeological dig
1. A new McDonald's seems less like economic progress and more like a threat to our aesthetic standards.

[the_Mont]

I like the original poster's #5 and #2.

[okcpulse]

1. Visiting downtown no longer translates to "I had to pay my traffic ticket".
2. You're still downtown after 5PM, but not because your car stalled.
3. Fodor's mentions downtown and Bricktown BEFORE the Cowboy Museum
4. A tourist has downtown on their agenda... for two days.
5. Conventioneers no longer stay huddled in the convention center.

[okcpulse]

Landscaping downtown no longer means weed-whacking the parking lot. And a construction announcement doesn't involve the words 'detention'.

[The Old Downtown Guy]

OKC Urban Renewal Authority provides plenty of material for local comedians.

No damned place to park.

People movin' out - - people movin' in - - it doesn't matter what's the color of their skin.

[Kerry]

An Old Downtown Guy is a valued member of on-line discussion group, not a crazy guy pushing a shopping cart talking to imaginary people.

[Karried]

People movin' out - - people movin' in - - it doesn't matter what's the color of their skin.

?????????

Don't use that one.

[dismayed]

Edmond's Shakespeare in the Park moved downtown? How did I miss that? Can I have some details.

[Nawfside OKC]

1. The NBA Playoffs...oh that's 2010..sorry!!

[AFCM]

- Metro's post count has gone up an average of .36 a day since 2005.

- The once-endangered buffalo again thrives in central Oklahoma.

[The Old Downtown Guy]

An Old Downtown Guy is a valued member of on-line discussion group, not a crazy guy pushing a shopping cart talking to imaginary people.

Or perhaps both . . .

[metro]

Downtown now has signs not just to tell you where the closest parking lot is...

[OKCMallen]

1. A new McDonald's seems less like economic progress and more like a threat to our aesthetic standards.

HAH nice

[metro]

ohhhh, i think I finally have a good one.

1.) Bricktown used to require having "bricks" in their developments.