By Paul Losch
About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
(More)About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Did you have a chance to go downtown on Father's Day Sunday afternoon?
World Music was out in force this weekend, not only in Palo Alto, but worldwide. This was the first year that Palo Alto was part of this event.
Personally, I had a good time. And the feedback from others I spoke with was along the same lines.
There are some weaknesses. I value the local community groups that were part of the event, and some were better than others.
The biggest problem was that University Avenue remained open to traffic. That made it difficult to get around a crowd that was enjoying a performance, and the ambient noise from the cars driving along took away from this participant some enjoyment of the music.
I invite others who attended the event to provide some perspective about what they experienced. I am not trying to be a cheerleader for it, I had no involvement in the project. But, for a first time effort, it appears to be something that Palo Alto should plan to do for years to come.
What do you think?
