{"id":4079,"date":"2012-09-28T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T04:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2012-09-30T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:08:24","slug":"black-market-moto-saloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/black-market-moto-saloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Potemkin Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cma1224-A6659-moto-show.jpg\" alt=\"May 24\"><br \/>\nI live in a neighborhood at the foot of Monticello, in a house built by James Starkes. James was working for the Charlottesville Woolen Mills in 1860, eight years before the mill took that name. Eight tenths of a mile west of the Mill site we have new a new neighbor, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcharlottesville.org\/listings\/index.cfm?action=display&#038;listingID=2922&#038;menuID=14&#038;tab=listing_detail_tab-1&#038;hit=1\">Black Market Moto Saloon<\/a>. The proprietor of the Saloon hopes to secure a special use permit to operate a <a http:\/\/library.municode.com\/HTML\/12078\/level3\/CO_CH34ZO_ARTXDE.html#CO_CH34ZO_ARTXDE_S34-1200DE\">Music Hall<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cs1226-A8342-haluska-moto.jpg\" alt=\"where are the amplifiers\"><br \/>\nSeptember 26, Neighborhood Development Services, in conjunction with Moto proprietor, M. Frankovich, conducted a &#8220;sound test&#8221;. City Councilors and Planning Commissioners plus police and NDS staff were on hand. Only thing missing was the source of the Moto&#8217;s big sound. No drums, no bass, no amps, no musicians on stage. Just a svelte PA system and a dismounted bison head.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cs1226-A8340-j-Tolbert-Moto.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nWhat did the sound test find? Moderate sound spillage to the street.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cs1226-A8357-TV-moto.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nJessica Cunnington of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsplex.com\/video\">Channel 19<\/a> reporting the Big Story. She said it never got too loud near the &#8220;Woolen Hills&#8221; neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a neighborhood at the foot of Monticello, in a house built by James Starkes. James was working for the Charlottesville Woolen Mills in 1860, eight years before the mill took that name. Eight tenths of a mile west of the Mill site we have new a new neighbor, the Black Market Moto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/black-market-moto-saloon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potemkin Village&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighborhood","category-night"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}