Subway Means Down

by Mike Didj on April 25, 2007

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{ 16 comments }

Kenley April 25, 2007 at 5:34 pm

Way to go Didj!
Let’s see some more of this on the weekend. Come out to Farmers Market and interview people. We should be collecting signatures all weekend in very public locations.

Tyler April 25, 2007 at 5:54 pm

Fantastic, Didj – way to capture the voices of the community. keep up the great work.

Raymond April 25, 2007 at 8:12 pm

Great piece of guerilla reporting, Didj.

mike didj April 25, 2007 at 11:35 pm

Thanks guys [flashes smile].

Dana and Alyeska-kg6amv@yahoo.com April 26, 2007 at 4:03 am

Maybe some more of people after they sign the petition as to why they did.
I just read spk’s recall notice to subway joe. Awesome! Awesome!

spk April 26, 2007 at 9:44 am

Way to go Didj! This is awesome.

anonymous April 26, 2007 at 10:05 am

I think for varied perspectives and more of a cross demographic interviewing some people in front of Von’s might be beneficial. Not that you would get a different answer, however, you may and diversity is healthy.

mike didj April 26, 2007 at 10:24 am

Anonymous: Thanx. More intallments coming soon. Even though I have found folks who are OK with Subway in Ojai, they’ve refused to speak on camera (except 1). On the flipside there were a few who were anti-Subway and camera shy too.

Anonymous April 26, 2007 at 11:20 am

You have a bright future at Fox News.

Dana and Alyeska-kg6amv@yahoo.com April 26, 2007 at 1:39 pm

Not Fox noise. Mike, gave full honest disclosure of the facts about the interviews, that honesty precludes him from ever getting a job with the boys controlled from one down under.

mike didj April 26, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Thank you very much my *anonymous* secret admirer but I don’t need Fox, I own 3 TV channels.

Mary DeCoste April 27, 2007 at 9:12 am

We lived in Meiners Oaks for a few years and hold a huge fondness for the Ojai Valley. When I told my 14 yr old son about the potential chain infiltration, he said with much emotion, “a Subway in Ojai? Why??” We live in N. CA, and we say “No!!”

Native April 27, 2007 at 11:32 am

drove through that former location of Ojai a few days ago — couldn’t find the town spirit anywhere — ‘Ojai’ — new construction and new buildings everywhere — each direction I turned got another shopper stuck between my teeth (to paraphrase Raymond Chandler) — bums, drunks, not homeless, accosting you at every public place — that is when I could get off the road, or across it, or get anyplace — could still, here and there, smell the orange blossoms — when the roaring trucks and racing pickups and leafblowers and jackhammers and background traffic fumes didn’t drown out all sensation and caring all together …

pete lafollette April 28, 2007 at 2:31 pm

As one of the “sour grape” city council candidates
Mr. Devito smears in his frustration of the threat
of recall as a city council member, the only thing
I really sour at is a council that perform their
duties protecting Ojai so poorly that a recall
petition is neccessary and going forward. I observed
so many transgressions by this governing body in the
past few years that I felt compelled to run against
them, that even inexperience could yield better
results than what we are now seeing. We have indeed
seen Mr. Devito’s violation of the public trust, much
to his and other council member’s astonishment, that
someone is actually following them acting on the
behalf of a community that, by the way, cares about
how and by who they are being represented. More sour grapes, please!

Rob April 30, 2007 at 9:19 am

1. What happened to two trees outside the old Frostie site ?
2. What happened to all the blogs re de Vito recall up Saturday am gone Sunday ?

Rob April 30, 2007 at 11:44 am

1. What happened to two trees outside the old Frostie site ?
2. What happened to all the blogs re de Vito recall up Saturday am gone by noon ?

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