Davis Square Task Force agenda for Wed 6/28

[ron_newman]

The Davis Square Task Force will meet Wedneday, June 28 from 7-9pm in the Tufts Administration Building, 167 Holland St. Everyone is invited. Here is the agenda. (I didn't write it up, I'm just passing it on from Chris Daveta, CDAVETA@ci.somerville.ma.us)

7:00-7:10 - Intros

7:10-7:25 - Adam Dash presentation on project next to the Bike Path

7:25-7:30 - Brief update on bike path plans with MBTA

7:30-7:45- DARBI [Davis Area Resident-Business Initiative] Update

7:45-8:00 - Michele Bisoce: Som|Dog presentation about off-leash areas
on bike path

8:00-8:30 - Traffic in Davis Square - Mark Chase, Davis resident and
traffic consultant to present (continued from previous meeting)

8:30-8:40 - Sara Rosenfeld about Community Servings

8:40-8:50 - Dunkin' Donuts' possible proposal for 24 hours
Mr. Crepe coming to Someday Café site

8:50-8:55 - Sign at Middlesex Bank in Davis Sq.

8:55-9:00 - Wrap up and next meeting

Comments

[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

Someday can't go! Personally, I prefer diesel, mainly because diesel sells a small coffee for $1, but Someday is a true pioneer of the New Davis. I remember going in there when it first opened in, maybe '93'?, when they played music so loud no one could bear it. Odd for a coffee house to be so loud, but then Sligo was quiet as a wake back then, so go figure.

[ron_newman]

1993 is about right. Back then, the Somerville Theatre and Johnny D's were pretty much the only things in Davis that anyone would want to visit at night. There was very little pedestrian traffic east of Dover Street.

The cafe's original location was not at the corner where it is now, but a tiny little storefront next to the theatre entrance. That storefront no longer exists, having been absorbed into an expanded theatre lobby.

A story I've read: it didn't yet have a name, and construction was taking longer than expected. One exasperated partner said to the other, "what is this, the someday cafe?" and that's where the name came from.

[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

I remember Someday being smaller, but I couldn't remember quite how. One thing I wish they'd do is get rid of that filthy carpet --bare concrete would be fine and a big improvement. That carpet creeps me out.

Don't forget Redbones as an old-timey night spot--they've been hoovering my wallet for as long as I can remember.

[ron_newman]

Though I recall Redbones then took up only about half of its current space, the other half being occupied by an old townie bar called Barnaby's.

[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

So THAT's why I don't remember the upstairs bar portion of Redbones from my college days. I thought it was just my faulty college-days memory. And that would explain the shamrock that is/was? on the Redbones sign. Ron, you've got to write this stuff down in a book...