Downtown Clearwater should look identical to downtown St Pete or Tampa/Hyde Park but it's empty store fronts in every direction. Before the scientologists came, it had fine department stores but now it's a ghost town speckled with bums. The blacks live everywhere but the beach and their worst ghetto is Child's Park. Even the country club that was in an upscale neighborhood is now surrounded by the niggers and homeless of Betty Lane. Germany and Russia were smart to ban them!
But maybe all the Yankees fleeing their lockdown states will rescue it.
One time, a coworker found a receipt in the parking lot at work. It was for a long weekend of auditing sessions and the total was $40,000! My coworker kept it and this was years ago so I don't know the details but the customer was visiting from Tell Aviv, lol.
I would have framed it! Last time I went to Clearwater was to apply for my CCW permit. About 4 years ago. I live in Seminole and never get up that way. The traffic going to the beach was terrible in the late 70's. I cant imagine how it is now.
I've given up on that beach entirely, unless someone is visiting. The best swimming holes are the ones the tourists stay away from. I like Gandy for driving on the beach. It's hard to imagine you used to do that on Clearwater, too, and the hotels were only a few stories.
I remember when Gulf Blvd was 2 lanes half covered with sand in Madeira Beach and the tallest structure was 2 stories. You could actually see the gulf between buildings.
I grew up in Tampa area and had a friend whose parents were high up in the scientology church. I remember playing with a videocamera in their house filming bits of my friends birthday party. The parents absolutely flipped their shit over having anything filmed in their house. I didn't understand at the time and just though they were huge assholes. They are very weird about being filmed, in general.
Remember that famous scientology death of Lisa Mcpherson? I remember seeing a map all the locations the scientology people drove this sick lady around and one of the locations was at the day job of my friends mom.
Those people are spooky.
I had to look up LM, I confused her with the other woman who died of neglect and had cockroach bites on her, but she was on the east coast iirc.
I feel bad for that woman suffering in that cabana like that.
There was a time online when people wanted to goad the scientologists, but I remember when they found stockpiles of weapons in an apartment owned by them somewhere in CLW. They can make people disappear. So I thought, let's not poke the bear.
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