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Post by lagatta on Aug 28, 2017 9:00:55 GMT
It is a more attractive place - l'Aérosol didn't look appealing at all. But the food didn't look very interesting at Les Petites Gouttes either...
How about En Vrac, rue de l'Olive, the wine bar where you can bottle your own, and that has plats du jour and saucisson etc?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2017 10:06:33 GMT
En Vrac should be renamed Boborama.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 28, 2017 13:04:13 GMT
I figured it would be fairly bobo (though it actually is a good idea), but like the fact that it has a matter-of-fact name.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 28, 2017 16:13:36 GMT
What does "bobo" mean? I do not know this word.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2017 16:29:26 GMT
It is short for "bourgeois bohemian" -- in short, urbanites who are not suffering from money problems but who prefer to live a "bohemian" lifestyle (under one's means in most categories) in reaction to the despised "yuppie" lifestyle of 20 or 30 years ago when many people liked to show off, often beyond their means.
In the end, many bobos spend just as much money as yuppies used to do but concentrate it on different things, such as world travel or organic foods.
If threatened at knifepoint, I myself would have to admit to being a bobo although I tend to avoid most of them like poison.
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Post by spindrift1 on Aug 28, 2017 16:56:28 GMT
Well it seems, after all, that Paris has changed considerably since the days I lived there. I cannot recall being hassled by any Frenchmen even though I was young and blonde ! And I see myself as a 'bobo' certainly in the way I dress. I think it's known as 'boho' here.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2017 17:46:25 GMT
Oh no, millennials are younger than bobos -- bobos own their own dwelling or are able to pay a considerable amount of rent. They are at least in their 30's and often well beyond that age. "Millennials" are still struggling financially in many cases, as huckle has pointed out.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 28, 2017 17:49:47 GMT
I think I'll put my Ganesh video from yesterday here, because not only is it proof that Paris has changed in many ways, I also made a lot of the video at Place de la Chapelle, the area where some media claimed women could not go.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 29, 2017 3:10:27 GMT
The last time I was in Paris a couple of years ago, K2 asked me the last time I'd been in Paris was and I did the math and it had been, I think, 13 years. Yes, Paris has changed, but all things considered I thought Paris was a more compelling place than it had been. Paris was wonderful, no doubt, but it has only become more so to me. Damn. now I want to go back again. Maybe next spring.
I'd maybe be a bobo if i had more money I suppose but I'm not complaining.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2017 12:10:12 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 11, 2018 16:34:08 GMT
It is actually much bigger than you can see here, because it covers both sides of the canal and is quite extensive.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 6, 2018 22:21:43 GMT
The migrant camp mentioned above was cleared out last week. Something like 1800 people, moved to gymnasiums for the moment. There were two more camps -- Porte de la Chapelle and Jaurès -- and they were cleared out this week. I happened to be at "Jaurès" yesterday, so I observed some of the "decontamination" activities to remove all trace of the camp.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 7, 2018 2:13:00 GMT
That's a lot of people to move and a lot of camp to get rid of! Practically speaking, you have to wonder where all the waste goes and what kind of health problems can be generated in that situation.
You say they're in gymnasiums now. Are those school gyms that are empty because school is out?
We can only feel sorry for the people living in those conditions, but who now may feel they have even less control over their own lives. Also, I feel sorry for the municipality of Paris in what must be a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 26, 2018 14:36:33 GMT
Raking up this post once more because I have heard that Paris is about to change in a dramatic way in 2020. Kerouac, you will know if this is so: The city will be merging the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th arrondissements into one large one - yet to be named!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 26, 2018 14:55:16 GMT
The name was chosen last week by a referendum of the residents: "Paris Centre"
Nothing will change except for the people who live there. The original numbers will still be used for reference and for the postal codes. However, there will only be one mairie -- the 'contest' was between the 3rd and 4th because the others were too small. So the administrative centre will be the mairie of the 3rd arrondissement.
In any case, it's true -- Paris no longer has 20 arrondissements but 17. There is still talk of merging Paris with the inner suburbs to make it as big as a city like London, but I personally do not believe that this will happen in my lifetime. France is too attached to independent towns for some reason and represents 40% of all of the towns in the EU. France has 35,500 towns, followed by (bigger) Germany with 11,275. The UK has a bit more than 10,000 and Spain and Italy have about 8,000.
Little by little, various French towns are merging, but it is an extremely slow process.
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Post by mossie on Oct 26, 2018 15:16:10 GMT
I find it hard to believe that Paris will encompass the banlieues, the city boundary is so clearly defined by the Periphique
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Post by tod2 on Oct 27, 2018 6:14:10 GMT
"Paris no longer has 20 arrondissements but 17."
Kerouac, please explain your statement - what has happened to 18-20? Are they merged with other arrondissements already?
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 27, 2018 6:23:34 GMT
It has Paris Centre and then 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. That makes 17.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 27, 2018 6:25:36 GMT
Oh, get it now. Thank you!
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 14, 2019 19:51:35 GMT
Traffic on the Champs Elysées in 1898
and more...
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2020 13:15:49 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 14, 2020 15:31:11 GMT
I spent an hour on a visual tour of Cite` Floral today , which I have walked around on my own some years ago. The tour was of the 13th and following the underground River Bievre. The guide, Corey Frye mentions that the Mayor of Paris Anne Hildago is trying to re-instate the river above ground. The sketch shows a deep channel where the road is now. I wonder if the engineers will allow soil to be removed. So many buildings on either side could weaken - just my thoughts.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 14, 2020 15:46:54 GMT
I took a few pictures recently of the pavement in the 5th or the 13th which had markers showing the location of the Bièvre. I'll see if I can find them.
I'm sure that the only project for uncovering the Bièvre would be very small sections running through a square or something, because I really can't imagine digging up the city to expose much of it.
President Mitterrand lived on rue de Bièvre even when he was president, because he thought the Elysée palace was not in conformity with his lifestyle. The river runs under the street just before joining the Seine.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 14, 2020 16:26:14 GMT
The road and sketch I saw of the proposed exposure of the river Bievre was in Rue Brilliant Savarin, It looks like a beautifying exercise not a necessity but as all people in some position you want to leave some mark on the earth that you are responsible for. It would be a lovely scene if and when it is completed but just looking at the road running between the buildings with high-rise apartments a little way away, can it be done?
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 20, 2021 21:50:51 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 21, 2021 5:34:46 GMT
Did you choose that video for the snow? It's lots of fun to watch. To me, the thing that looked the most old and outdated were the buses.
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Post by mossie on Feb 21, 2021 8:22:45 GMT
Yes, the buses were quite something. When that film finished I also watched the old film from the 1890's. What really struck me in that were two things, 1. Practically everyone, even children, wore a hat. And 2. the traffic was as bad as today but horsedrawn, all the little cabs etc were drawn by black horses, but the pompiers still stood out with white horses.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 21, 2021 8:46:42 GMT
Since the 747 went into service in 1969, I would say that this film dates from about 1970. What is strange is that British Pathé itself posted the video on YouTube and dated it "1960-1965". Since it shows only iconic locations, except for the vehicles, this is a case where you can say "nothing has changed" except that the historical buildings are no longer black with old soot.
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Post by bjd on Feb 21, 2021 10:10:15 GMT
I first spent time in Paris in 1974 but don't remember those old buses and conductors. I think parts of that film indeed date from the late 60s, others from the early 70s if you go by the clothes.
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Post by lugg on Feb 21, 2021 19:18:41 GMT
I have only ever been once I think in the late 80s or early 90s so cannot comment. I did very much enjoy watching the video nonetheless.
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