STF wrote:I wanted to move to Louisville. The company I work for has an office there, but I got stuck with moving to Colorado instead.

I do have to go to Lousiville from 10/8-10/19 for work. What should I do while I'm there?

I wasn't able to see the show advertised in the flyer above because I arrived in Louisville late that Monday night. I just found out that I'll have to stay here another week or so because my work thing is behind schedule.

I told my boss that I hate it in Colorado and want to transfer to our office in Louisville. It looks like this will happen and I'm very happy. Hopefully, in the spring of next year.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

John W. wrote:I did this. I've been planning for it for months and here I am finally. I start a new job down here next week. We technically live in Shively -- found a house with a big old yard on this side of town and we love it. Our mortgage payment costs about as much as a two-bedroom apartment would in Chicago.

So... two things: where can I get a good haircut and where do I go to get some good pizza?

Wick's, Za's, and Impellizerri's--all on Bardstown Road (though Wick's might technically be on Baxter, which Bardstown turns into) all have huge, delicious, expensive pies. Tony Boombozz is also good.

I suggest, however, that you get on Dixie Highway heading south, away from the city. Driving from Shively, you'll pass Rockford Lane, Upper Hunters Trace, and ultimately Greenwood Road (White Castle on the corner--this is the street my high school is on: Pleasure Ridge Park). Just past Greenwood, still traveling on Dixie, look to your left for Bonnie & Clyde's Pizza Parlor. It used to be a Shakey's and likely still has a player piano. It still has solid thin-crust pizza, and the ambience, unchanged since I attended post-little leaugue football game parties in the mid-1970's. It'll blow your mind.

Also, you need to check out Mike Linnig's, which is on River Road a bit south of Greenwood. Good heart-stopping fried fish and seafood, cool old-school atmosphere (it's been there since 1938), and you can walk over the levee to the Ohio River.

Bon appetit! And welcome to the 'ville!

South End feller, eh?

I'm an ex-briar myself, and I always used to avoid the PRP/Valley Station area thinking it was too redneck until I started realizing that some of the coolest folks I knew from the 'Ville grew up around the Greenbelt/Rockford Lane area. Isn't there a great chicken & waffles joint down that-a-ways?

Re the OP's question: As for pizza, Boombozz is really great when you opt for the non-trad stuff. The "pollotate" white pizza with chicken, potatoes, garlic oil and red onions is amazing. As for food in general, the best mom & pop Italian place is Ferd Grisante's in J-Town (they make a killer filet mignon, too); for diner fare, check out the Twig & Leaf in The Highlands; the best Mexican food in town is Los Aztecas in Lyndon and J-Town, and there is a kick-ass Cuban joint I forget the name of on 3rd St. Road south of the Watterson. The best steak in town, bar none, is Pat's on Brownsboro Rd. Last I checked, it was cash only.

The arty sections of town are The Highlands, essentially a clone of the SoCo/Lamar section of Austin (Ear X-Tacy, the 'Ville's answer to Waterloo Records, even hands out "Keep Louisville Weird" bumper stickers), the adjacent Original Highlands which is lower rent and more local-feeling, and downtown just north of U of L's campus, which is more LGBT oriented.

The 'Ville is a great town. It's a modern Midwestern town and a genteel old Southern town all at once. It's steeped in history but not particularly stifling to live in, and it's chock-full of cool people.

FuzzBob wrote:[South End feller, eh?

Fuckin' A! I grew up off Manslick Road--on the opposite suide or Iroquois Park from Vietnam Kitchen. Lived closer to Doss but attended Pleasure Ridge because I'm "gifted."

Before Jefferson Mall opened in Okolona, I remember my family packing a huge cooler full of beer and pop and sandwiches whenever we'd go shopping at The Mall or Oxmoor Center. The 45-minute drive from the south end was like driving to Chicago to us.

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Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

FuzzBob wrote:[South End feller, eh?

Before Jefferson Mall opened in Okolona, I remember my family packing a huge cooler full of beer and pop and sandwiches whenever we'd go shopping at The Mall or Oxmoor Center. The 45-minute drive from the south end was like driving to Chicago to us.

That was when the Watterson was only a 4-lane and the Snyder didn't even exist, right?

FuzzBob wrote:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

FuzzBob wrote:[South End feller, eh?

Before Jefferson Mall opened in Okolona, I remember my family packing a huge cooler full of beer and pop and sandwiches whenever we'd go shopping at The Mall or Oxmoor Center. The 45-minute drive from the south end was like driving to Chicago to us.

That was when the Watterson was only a 4-lane and the Snyder didn't even exist, right?

Yep, circa 1973-79 or so. I think J-Mall opened in the early 80's.