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# At least Mid-City hasn’t sold out
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/at-least-mid-city-hasnt-sold-out-editor/
- Published: 2007-10-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:30:44.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Mid-City, #archive-import

*By Jack Susleck Mid-City*

I have lived in Mid-City for the past six years and I must take issue with Mikey (Tittinger’s) piece about it (“Cartographer shrugged: Mid-City full of maybes,” Oct. 17).

I moved to Ocean Park almost 30 years ago, when it was a neighborhood with neighborhood services like barbershops, dry cleaners, bodegas and funky affordable places to eat and drink (Circle Bar R.I.P.) lining Main Street. Now it’s a sterile strip of Starbucks and revolving boutiques with the lifespans of fruit flies. After the invasion of the frappuccino-swilling cell phone addicts was complete, I fled for higher ground.

Now I live within short walking distance of a Co-Op, cleaner, barber, bodega, local bar, movie theaters, grocery store, pharmacy, plenty of little restaurants and downtown — for whenever I want that increasingly empty Santa Monica “experience.” Outside of business trips, I rarely have to drive my car... not bad for the center of nowhere.

With development looming all around, I just hope this ground is high enough.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 19, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101907.pdf?ref=smdp.com)