Buffett memorial
I just got through watching Jimmy Buffett on David Letterman and I can’t help being struck by the fact that we as a community have done nothing to try to honor one of the most successful living Mobilians (if not THE most successful). Why not name the Causeway the Jimmy Buffett Causeway? Or find some other suitable place?
Hell, there are plenty of politicians who have things named after them around this town. Why not do something to honor someone who has been a monumental success in so many fields and who most Mobilians love to brag about when they’re jabbering with someone from another town? It just makes sense. And all you haters out there who will moan and act like Jimmy’s music is beneath you, I’m not saying you even have to like him. But you should at least respect the career he’s had and the success in writing, music, business and theater.
For that matter, it’s time Mobile forms it’s own Music Hall of Fame. It doesn’t need to cost a bunch of money. It could be without an edifice for a while at least. But we have an impressive musical history and it deserves a space, certainly as much as our sports hall of fame.
We need to tell the elected folks we’d like a statue of Jimmy in Bienville Square, or something along those lines.
Tags: Alabama, fame, Jimmy Buffett, mobile, Music
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 am
Screw that! It’s my life goal to have the causeway named after me!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:10 am
Let’s make a deal. If Jimmy will open a Margaritaville Cafe or
Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Mobile, we’ll salute him
with a bronze!
May 24th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Sounds like fodder for an arts column. Hey, wait a second…it was.
http://lagniappemobile.com/article/1191
May 28th, 2008 at 2:02 am
When I first moved to LA, some decades ago, I noticed that many roads and bridges here are named for
living persons. In my native Pennsylvania, bridges were “Memorial” bridges named for someone
distinguished, but deceased. Those deceased folks have very little chance to cause us to be embarrassed
enough to want to rename a bridge or a road. My guess is that Jimmy Buffett probably won’t embarrass us, but
whatever happened to Richard Scrushy Blvd. in the Birmingham area?
May 28th, 2008 at 3:26 am
It’s still there in Fairfield - Richard M. Scrushy Pkwy
but I’ve heard it will probably be renamed Karl Rove Lane
this autumn when the zoning commission entertains street
name amendments.