Closed Doors

Closed Doors

Some businesses say goodbye in Johnson County:

The Holiday Grocery in North Liberty is gone for good following a November fire. It was one of my bike ride stops and they had good sweet corn and very cheap breakfasts. It was also a frequent satellite voting site in big elections. The fixtures at Cub Foods are getting auctioned off today as well.

The Campus 3 theaters, the last place to see a movie in downtown Iowa City, will close next month. When I came to town in 1990, the Englert was still a working theater - I remember seeing "Silence Of The Lambs" there in its first run - and the Iowa Theatre was also open (their last show was Madonna's "Truth or Dare" in `91). The mall movies are victims of UI expansion and the incessant demand for a Big Flat Parking Lot. A ramp a few steps aways must be no good.