Top 10 underrated U.S. cities.

You're welcome, Carla. I'm happy to promote Louisville any chance I get.

As for the Mall St. Matthews, it was apparently the first mall in all of Kentucky, but being the first enclosed mall in the country is a new one on me. Of course, I'm too young to remember when it opened (I wasn't even born yet).

Re: Mid-City Mall, it's actually a nice little neighborhood mall these days. Ever since the Baxter Avenue Theatres came in, it has seemed to improve ever since.

My favorite line, at the risk of starting something:

"this Southern city has loads of small-town charm"

I was going to mention that, but then we would have a civil war on the forum just like on the old one. Personally, I believe the Ville to be a Southern city. It does have some tinges of the North and Midwest, but overall, it's Southern.

Here's one entertaining, off-topic way to evaulate southern or northern. I scored 63% dixie.

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligen ... _quiz.html

The first enclosed Mall was called Southdale in Edina, Minnesota in 1956.

[Robin Garr]

Re: Mid-City Mall, it's actually a nice little neighborhood mall these days. Ever since the Baxter Avenue Theatres came in, it has seemed to improve ever since.

It's worth noting, though, that Baxter management scrupulously segregates the theater from the mall, with a separate entrance and no inside connections at all. In my opinion, the best way Baxter could have helped turn the Mall around would have been to make the main entrance inside the mall, directing all movie traffic through the mall and past its stores. But it appears there was a conscious decision not to do that.

[Robin Garr]

The first enclosed Mall was called Southdale in Edina, Minnesota in 1956.

Does this add something to Ron's identical observation posted in this thread three days ago?

Re: Mid-City Mall, it's actually a nice little neighborhood mall these days. Ever since the Baxter Avenue Theatres came in, it has seemed to improve ever since.

It's worth noting, though, that Baxter management scrupulously segregates the theater from the mall, with a separate entrance and no inside connections at all. In my opinion, the best way Baxter could have helped turn the Mall around would have been to make the main entrance inside the mall, directing all movie traffic through the mall and past its stores. But it appears there was a conscious decision not to do that.

Perhaps. But certainly a lot of people park on the front side of the mall, and walk through its corridors to get to the cinema. Cinemas these days tend to be detached entities anyway. I can understand why the developer didn't want the theater to feel like a mall store. It's the aesthetics thing.

[Robin Garr]

Here's one entertaining, off-topic way to evaulate southern or northern. I scored 63% dixie.

Fun test. Same identical score here. I'm a little surprised I scored that high. Or low, depending on your perspective.

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Sure it does...It is three days later.....Have another cup of Coffee.....

Here's one entertaining, off-topic way to evaulate southern or northern. I scored 63% dixie.

Fun test. Same identical score here. I'm a little surprised I scored that high. Or low, depending on your perspective.

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

63% Southern is still 37% non-Southern.

[Robin Garr]

63% Southern is still 37% non-Southern.

Heh ... you hit "Edit" before I could needle you about your calculator being out of gas.

63% Southern is still 37% non-Southern.

Heh ... you hit "Edit" before I could needle you about your calculator being out of gas.

I haven't had my coffee yet.

I was 73% Southern. I really thought I'd be higher!

And Louisville is still Southern.

After 14 years in Chattanooga.....I scored 96% southern.

I was 73% Southern. I really thought I'd be higher!

And Louisville is still Southern.

Louisville was Unionist. It is industrial. UofL was in the Midwest Conference. There are as many Midwestern sounding talkers as Southern ones.

There is indeed room for differing opinions here.

53%, able to walk in both your worlds!