JR J
Ms. Gardner
H. English
3 February 2012
The Couples’ District
The Theatre District of downtown
Petaluma consists of a courtyard with a water fountain, a Mexican restaurant
and an assortment of various other shops and small businesses across from a
movie theatre with a mucky, slow moving river behind it; there is restaurant
adjacent to the Mexican one, Tres Hombres, with Moyo’s frozen yogurt lounge
across from it; next to the adjacent restaurant, there is the town’s favorite
candy shop, Powell’s, next to an ever-changing suite that is currently occupied
by “Emma’s Home Stop”. Jenny Lo’s
Chinese cuisine and Blu American Eatery line the street: the courtyard and the
restaurants all lay across the street from the movie theatre, The Boulevard
Cinemas, which has another row of restaurants behind it and the Petaluma River
running off to the right of behind, yet again, an assortment of
restaurants. Behind the brick and food
based buildings of downtown Petaluma, the Petaluma River flows serenely through
the town, offering a romantic setting in both the loving and literate
forms. The coupling of dinner or a movie
or both with a romantic promenade down the old wooden walkway next to the river
in the evening or after the sun has gone down is a popular to the point of
cliché among Petaluma couples, as is an ascension to the balcony on the Apple
Box for a first or deeply romantic kiss: I, myself, have done it. Basically the Theatre District of Petaluma-the
cafés and the restaurants, the Apple Box balcony and the Petaluma River, the
theatre itself and the courtyard-is the foundations of a temple of romance
designed for the lovers and couples of the town spanning from the inexperienced
youthful romantics to the aged lifelong partners.
The
Theatre District, however, is not just a part town that awakens in the
nocturnal portion of the day, every time someone or some people go into it; it
holds the potential for whatever you want it to be: it can be a day stop, a
place to spend time with your family and friends or, usually, your date. There are places to share a meal, catch a
movie, buy frozen yogurt, romantically kiss your boyfriend or girlfriend or
your date, park your car, or go for a romantic stroll down the river: what you
do in the district is like an assortment of all different color Playdos and the
colors that you compile into one glob is the day you make for yourself in the
district. With all of the food and
movies and romantic pathways, the only thing the theatre district needs is
couples to eat the food and watch the movies and walk along the romantic
pathways.
All
of the little cafés like Pete’s and Starbucks and restaurants like Sugo and Blu
play host to an immense number of couples from all over town, and with the
recently constructed theatre, the romantic refreshments are all accentuated by
a film at the Boulevard. I can call it irony because it is, but more than
that, it is a paradox: in the second half of the 19th Century and
the beginning of the 20th Century, the Old Chicago Pizza Parlor was
a brothel. The activities that are
performed in a brothel are usually the activities performed by mature couples,
but now, in the 21st Century, it now serves as a spot for many first
dates and young couples, the immature stages of a couple: so the older the
building has gotten, the younger its nature has become.
The
wonderful thing about Petaluma for couples, apart from the ample romantic
settings, is that there are consistently changing events in the town: there is
the ever-favored old car show in which all of the classic cars that are owned by
Petaluma residents are show-cased; there are also the intimately lit and
enjoyable auctions on the patio at American Graffiti overlooking the Petaluma
River. Also, there is the seasonal
summer farmer’s market as well as the annual Butter and Eggs’ Day parade. Love, love, LOVE- it can be heard through the
pulling up of cars dropping young couples off or seen through the fluorescent
theatre lights advertising the movie that the couple sees: it runs deep
throughout the district.
With
the Theatre District’s many attractions, it becomes an epicenter of attracted
people. With the youthful based shops
and cafés, the young couples grow, and with the aged based events and restaurants,
the older couples reignite their flame. There
all kinds of compilations and combinations of romantic settings and events of
Petaluma’s Theatre District, with this, the variety and quantity of couples in
Petaluma flourishes. Like a domino
effect, the variety of activities that the two men, two women, or man and woman
can do together knocks over and falls onto the blossoming and growing of
couples like one falling into the other’s embrace.
H. English
3 February 2012
The Couples’ District
The Theatre District of downtown
Petaluma consists of a courtyard with a water fountain, a Mexican restaurant
and an assortment of various other shops and small businesses across from a
movie theatre with a mucky, slow moving river behind it; there is restaurant
adjacent to the Mexican one, Tres Hombres, with Moyo’s frozen yogurt lounge
across from it; next to the adjacent restaurant, there is the town’s favorite
candy shop, Powell’s, next to an ever-changing suite that is currently occupied
by “Emma’s Home Stop”. Jenny Lo’s
Chinese cuisine and Blu American Eatery line the street: the courtyard and the
restaurants all lay across the street from the movie theatre, The Boulevard
Cinemas, which has another row of restaurants behind it and the Petaluma River
running off to the right of behind, yet again, an assortment of
restaurants. Behind the brick and food
based buildings of downtown Petaluma, the Petaluma River flows serenely through
the town, offering a romantic setting in both the loving and literate
forms. The coupling of dinner or a movie
or both with a romantic promenade down the old wooden walkway next to the river
in the evening or after the sun has gone down is a popular to the point of
cliché among Petaluma couples, as is an ascension to the balcony on the Apple
Box for a first or deeply romantic kiss: I, myself, have done it. Basically the Theatre District of Petaluma-the
cafés and the restaurants, the Apple Box balcony and the Petaluma River, the
theatre itself and the courtyard-is the foundations of a temple of romance
designed for the lovers and couples of the town spanning from the inexperienced
youthful romantics to the aged lifelong partners.
The
Theatre District, however, is not just a part town that awakens in the
nocturnal portion of the day, every time someone or some people go into it; it
holds the potential for whatever you want it to be: it can be a day stop, a
place to spend time with your family and friends or, usually, your date. There are places to share a meal, catch a
movie, buy frozen yogurt, romantically kiss your boyfriend or girlfriend or
your date, park your car, or go for a romantic stroll down the river: what you
do in the district is like an assortment of all different color Playdos and the
colors that you compile into one glob is the day you make for yourself in the
district. With all of the food and
movies and romantic pathways, the only thing the theatre district needs is
couples to eat the food and watch the movies and walk along the romantic
pathways.
All
of the little cafés like Pete’s and Starbucks and restaurants like Sugo and Blu
play host to an immense number of couples from all over town, and with the
recently constructed theatre, the romantic refreshments are all accentuated by
a film at the Boulevard. I can call it irony because it is, but more than
that, it is a paradox: in the second half of the 19th Century and
the beginning of the 20th Century, the Old Chicago Pizza Parlor was
a brothel. The activities that are
performed in a brothel are usually the activities performed by mature couples,
but now, in the 21st Century, it now serves as a spot for many first
dates and young couples, the immature stages of a couple: so the older the
building has gotten, the younger its nature has become.
The
wonderful thing about Petaluma for couples, apart from the ample romantic
settings, is that there are consistently changing events in the town: there is
the ever-favored old car show in which all of the classic cars that are owned by
Petaluma residents are show-cased; there are also the intimately lit and
enjoyable auctions on the patio at American Graffiti overlooking the Petaluma
River. Also, there is the seasonal
summer farmer’s market as well as the annual Butter and Eggs’ Day parade. Love, love, LOVE- it can be heard through the
pulling up of cars dropping young couples off or seen through the fluorescent
theatre lights advertising the movie that the couple sees: it runs deep
throughout the district.
With
the Theatre District’s many attractions, it becomes an epicenter of attracted
people. With the youthful based shops
and cafés, the young couples grow, and with the aged based events and restaurants,
the older couples reignite their flame. There
all kinds of compilations and combinations of romantic settings and events of
Petaluma’s Theatre District, with this, the variety and quantity of couples in
Petaluma flourishes. Like a domino
effect, the variety of activities that the two men, two women, or man and woman
can do together knocks over and falls onto the blossoming and growing of
couples like one falling into the other’s embrace.
JR J
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