It took me a while to find this post again and anything about Granite City. It was buried under all that worship of the orange idol, and some common sense replies from time to time.

But anyway, taking this story about Jerry's and coupling it with a new story that you posted on the front page today....

I wonder if the announced opening of the Courtroom at City Hall would bring back the traffic that Jerry's once again would deem sustainable.

Then again, I suppose what's done is done. Longtime restaurants around the country close from time to time. It's sometimes changing tastes, other times the economy, other times because grandpa retires and the kids don't want to put in all the hours it takes to keep it going.

If Jerry's doesn't make it back on the scene, maybe the increased traffic at the courtroom will be appealing to other ventures downtown...

I only saw the inside of that room once, but do they also do jury trials there? I don't know.


But juries constitute 12 more people that get hungry at mid-day... Those defenders need fuel to defend....and the prosecutors, probably just brown bag it..and don't have time to leave.

Just rambling about downtown a little bit, but don't you want to change the subject once in a while?