[CQ-Contest] Room Reservations for Dayton 2020 at the CrownePlaza hotel in downtown Dayton

[Barry]

Jim,

In today's economy, at least where I live (Denver), unemployment is 
about 2%, anyone who wants a job can find one.  there are help wanted 
signs everywhere.  Maybe it's different in Ohio, but here, those who 
panhandle, beg, etc., clearly don't want to work, and I suspect it's the 
same in Santa Cruz.  maybe Ohio is different.

Barry W2UP


On 9/17/2019 2:00 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> Thanks Hans and others. Life is hard for those left behind by 
> automation, the migration of jobs to other places, and of money to the 
> richest. There are many homeless folks all over our country, and many 
> with homes that they're likely to lose because they've lost jobs or 
> had medical catastrophe. I know a bit about that -- my mother was born 
> in KY coal country, her father was from MD coal country, and I was 
> born and raised in WV. Dayton has been on hard times for many years -- 
> among other things, downtown and the surrounding area had been wiped 
> out by a major flood. I learned about this when I had client in 
> downtown Dayton about 15 years ago, a church for whom I designed a 
> sound system. Walking distance from the Crown Plaza.
>
> There are homeless encampments in Santa Cruz, CA, ten miles from me, 
> and in many major cities. As a student in 1962, I worked for a small 
> radio station and broadcast consultant in Charleston, WV. I walked a 
> bit less than a mile from a rented room to sign on the station at 6 am 
> and sign it off at 1 am. I often encountered panhandlers, but never 
> felt threatened. When I visited Chicago for a job interview in 1964, 
> and later moved there for 42 years, I regularly patronized jazz clubs 
> in the heart of the Black community, and never felt threatened.
>
> Sadly, things have gotten much worse for those left behind by our 
> economy, and to add to that, the ravages of opioids. A long time ham 
> friend lost his son to this.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On 9/16/2019 8:01 PM, Radio KØHB wrote:
>> I’m only familiar with the area immediately adjacent to the 
>> CrownPlaza, so I can’t speak about the “Oregon area”.
>>
>> In my (mis-spent) youth in the Navy I navigated a lot of dark and 
>> sketchy waterfronts in down-scale foreign ports.
>>
>> In none of them was I ever so apprehensive for my safety as I was 
>> this last May after the Contest Dinner walking 2 blocks from CP to 
>> where my vehicle was parked in a surface lot.  Approached twice with 
>> offers of intimate horizontal refreshment and once by a pair of 
>> fellows desiring “money for the bus”.
>
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