City Newspaper Archives - 3/2007
MIDTOWN PLAZA: How about a 'museum of failures'?
Published on Mar 21, 2007
There has been a lot of noise and ink about the city needing, to do something with Midtown Plaza. I propose that they make it into a Museum of Bad Ideas.
We could with a deck chair from the fast ferry, in a room where the soccer stadium's dwindling attendance figures flash 24/7. And possibly a reenactment of a working Motor Vehicle Department located in the city. And to increase attendance we could have a weekly contest, "Stupid is as Stupid Does" where the man (or woman) in the street could be chosen to display his or her particular gift of stupid.
Maybe we can't grow up to be president, but by God, each and every one of us can have a real stupid idea. Midtown Plaza. I think "plaza" is an Italian word. Why go to Venice? Visit our flooded second floor.
Tim Shea, Nelson Street, Rochester
