04-11-2018, 11:33 PM
(04-11-2018, 01:15 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote: Unfortunately I am old enough to remember when they did change to Uptown Waterloo. It was to separate itself from Downtown Kitchener. If people in the Kitchener/Waterloo area said Downtown, they had to preface with the name Kitchener Downtown. When they were selling it to counsel, they did reference s well it had a "cleaner" image to it.
If you look up in The Record, I am sure you will find the articles that support it. I think it was around the late 70's
Yeah, I grew up in the 80s and always heard that it was to differentiate Waterloo from Kitchener since DTK had a bad reputation.
I also grew up thinking Waterloo was underhanded for encouraging all social services to be in DTK... I still do. I'm really hoping Waterloo doesn't try to block a safe injection site.
FWIW, I have lived in Waterloo all my life but have tried not to be a Waterloo snob.