MANY years ago downtown Providence was ALIVE with classic movie theaters. And lurid hotels-like the Gemini and the Pilgrim Inn - just reeking of dark, voluptuous SIN.

 

What I miss in the Kennedy Plaza area are old friendly, cheap restaurants for early hot coffee & ham & eggs & toast , breakfast. There used to be several of them a minute or two walk from the RIPTA bus terminal. Not much of drinker myself, I still miss those cozy little , unpretentious , Peggy Lee Song ( " Is That All There Is ? " ) friendly BARS in the same area. This Providence place is now desolate, blighted , and melancholy.

And , of course , MANY years ago downtown Providence was ALIVE with classic movie theaters. And lurid hotels-like the Gemini and the Pilgrim Inn - just reeking of dark, voluptuous SIN. Not much of a hell- damned sinner myself , I still miss these alluring places.