Comments on: Palafox Street In Downtown Pensacola Will Be Pedestrian Only For Mother’s Day

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 10 May 2020 13:02:49 +0000

@Anne…..we must be long-distance cousins. There is NOTHING downtown to draw me down there.

By: NPC

NPC — Sun, 10 May 2020 01:09:54 +0000

We were instructed not to attend church services or have gatherings. Home improvement and grocery stores have been busting at the seams with the same people who would be attending church services. Opening the streets to foot traffic for the benefit of those businesses on Palafox St. is what we are told but who is it to actually benefit?

By: bob c

bob c — Sat, 09 May 2020 17:35:32 +0000

Driving downtown on South Palafox Street it is Very Noticeable how much of an impact the BARS make.
Hopefully there is a LOT of revenue for the City and County coming from those bars in tax money.
Wondering if the Take-Out alcoholic beverages will continue to be available?
Also notice the number of homeless who set up their sites in the median on North Palafox along the blocks before Wright Street. Shopping buggies overflowing with their belongings and piles of clothes while people sit or sleep on benches.
Shop owners you have our sympathies for the people sleeping in your doorways and just out on the sidewalks in front of your establishments.
And, of course the usual every street corner beggar with cardboard signs and being Hungry or Need a Beer.
Welcome to downtown Pensacola.

By: BR

BR — Sat, 09 May 2020 14:41:02 +0000

While driving through town the other day, I couldn’t help but notice restaurant servers on the street were not wearing mask. I emailed one restaurant manager and was told they were on backorder but were going to wear home made mask the next day. Four days later and still no mask. No one cares. Stay away.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 09 May 2020 13:58:10 +0000

Glad they are giving people a choice

By: Ktis

Ktis — Sat, 09 May 2020 13:44:18 +0000

This country has to get back to what it was over a month ago.
We all need to pull together and take our country back from others trying to tell us what we can and can’t do.
People open your eyes we have had worst disease and virus and came through.
Stop letting this one or others make you scared of your own shadow.
You give up now you might as well did your own hole and just crawl in it.
If sounds harsh to bad. I want my life back and enjoy again.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 09 May 2020 10:21:25 +0000

Strange, since the Mayor and City Council have BANNED any “Permits” for gatherings of 50 or more people.
Now, he wants to have a Street Party?
Thinking like that is just Amazing.
Us, we have plenty to keep us entertained, planting flowers, trimming hedges and mostly keeping our distance — for a bit longer — from a bunch of “Who Knows Ya” strangers.
Not afraid, just being safe for our family.
God Bless those in the path of the terrible fires around here.