QUOTE(Folsom Mike @ Jun 21 2008, 07:11 PM)
After living here my whole life, I find the prison to be the worst piece of property on this city. And now people want this great new bridge named after someone who wrote a song about this house of criminals, who had little to do with our city's prominence at all.
I fully agree. While I agree that most people to whom you mention "Folsom" will link the city with the song, I don't know that a) anyone chooses to move here because Johnny Cash sang a song about Folsom or b) that anyone chooses to travel to or do business in Folsom because Johnny Cash sang a song about Folsom.
To name the bridge after Cash and, consequently, go out of our way to spoon feed the image that we
are all about the prison would minimize the true spirit, feel, culture and history of this great city.
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