This week en Calzoncillos : “Is Carson City a good place to live?” “It used to be.”
Frozen Pizza on the Rocks and Californication in a Border Town
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Ingredients: Maple and Hawthorn tree leaves. But is it frozen?
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Or can Leo walk on water?
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Pizza on the rocks. Ready to enjoy. Look at that crust!
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STOP CALIFORNICATION!
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Lucy inspects the dilapidated basketball court next to a new 3–4 bedroom development that is filling out the last of the open space on a busy road (College Parkway) which leads up to “Harvard on the Hill” (the community college) and through the already overcrowded city to Death Road (Highway 50).
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The closest building to the east is an assisted living facility. (Understaffed, of course).
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. . . and the next is a long-time empty building which was once a K-Mart, for a short time a gym that closed during covid. Most of this entire strip mall is empty. Even a McDonald’s didn’t last, which is a good thing.