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Re:Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ by 11thEarlOfMar on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:32PM (#16962602)
In the 60s/70s, we used to have a 'Block Party'. We'd pass the hat to pay for a permit and block off both ends of the street for a few hours on a Saturday. Set up picnic tables, play games, pot luck, talk politics and religion and basically call time out on our otherwise busy or boring lives.
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Re:Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ by closeparen on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:54PM (#16962776)
The suburb I grew up in still has several of these every summer.
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Re:Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ by nealdt on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:41AM (#16965251)
There was a movement in the UK that did exactly this (reclaim the streets, I think). They got infiltrated by the police!!
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