More Downtown Pictures

As in most third-world towns, the plaza is the center of the cultural world in Corozal.  On Fridays and some other days, the plaza was full of vendors, selling new and used merchandise. Well, it used to be.  The town board changed all of that.  The plaza now has very nice (expensive) walls around all of the green space, and it's all off limits to vendors and most everyone else.  Perhaps somebody thought this was a good idea at the time, but this year (2006) the town board members were all defeated in the municipal elections.  I suspect that the plaza played a part in that defeat.  . 

Across the street from the plaza (to the south) used to be 'Batty and Son''s main store -- the sidewalks, like the store interior, were always jam full of merchandise -- Batty is a 'compulsive stocker' -- but his daughters insisted that he move the stores and now they are down south a couple of blocks on Fifth Avenue,  [Sensibly, he named the new stores after his daughters, since they already ran them!]

At any rate, Mrs. Lowe owns the building on the corner, and she finally rented it to some Chinese friends and they put in a little fashion store, and an ice creme parlour.   Now Corozal has always had roving ice cream vendors, but this is a place where you can pull up your car, and get some ice creme right now. Or walk across the street from the plaza.   [And, amazingly, they painted out the Belize Hardware sign which had been on the building for ten years.]

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