I use to live in the Uptown neighborhood back in the mid 1970’s in one of the hotels just across Truman College….and where they had a bar below called: ‘The Wooden Nickel’ It was personally for me, a love-hate relationship with the neighborhood that had its share of drunks, derelicts and the deranged. Yet it had a rare sublime sense of transparency and honesty about it, that could be admired and appreciated. Perhaps because Uptown was a gateway and entry point for a wide cross section of people coming in from across the country (myself included with only $9 dollars in the pocket)….and immigrants from abroad that created a unique interactive cultural synergism. Indeed alot of things have changed in Uptown since, but God, how I ever loved it so !