But not selling it would be like junking a car that still runs just so no one else could have it. She seems to be thinking about it as we speak. She says she ll entertain offers and promises that if someone does what she did for the first six years work behind the bar six nights a week and book the bands herself money can and will be made. She s come to the conclusion that once again the Mouse is to blame. The Hut s financial difficulties started about three years ago, roughly the moment Caltrans began tearing up the offramps and onramps for the nearby 5 freeway.
People couldn t figure out how to get there on any given day.
I d frequently leave Linda s at two in the morning, only to be shunted off the freeway within an exit or two no signs, no arrows, just cars splintering off in twos and threes until all of a sudden, yours is the only car left, and you re staring at a scarred and scorched pit straight out of Blade Runner , with no earthly idea how to return to civilization. It was a nightmare, all so that Disneyland could get its own offramp and a face-lift. John Pantle, the Downtown Disney House of Blues talent booker, agrees. Detroit, and their economy s been in the shitter for 15 years. It s all about location.