Between stormy weather days, My Fella and I have been playing lots of tennis.
We love the free courts at Troy University, which are mainly reserved for uni and high school students, but can also be used by the general public.
I have never seen such gorgeous, well-kept, free courts. In Canada or the USA. And we've played at lots of different courts, in various places, while on the road.
Where did the $$$ money come from for these (dozen or so) tourney caliber tennis courts?
Troy, Alabama is a little university town... similar in size to Comox, BC. Or Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Grand-Mère, Quebec. Or Petawawa, Ontario.
It's hard not to notice how black and white it is down here in southern Alabama. Not black and white regarding race. Black and white in terms of money. There are tons of mobile home parks. And there are the fancy restored homes. Not much in between though.
That's why these twelve spiffy new tennis courts seem out of place in a town of only 14,000 folks. But what the heck do I know? I'm just a tourist.
That loves tennis.
I bet the cost of building and maintaining those tennis courts is 1/100th the cost of an indoor hockey rink!
Posted by: Don | January 27, 2012 at 09:22 PM
Good point, Mr P. Even though I'm Canadian I have no idea what a hockey rink costs :)
Not even really sure what the motivation was for my post about the tennis courts in Troy, BUT I really am curious why they would put in twelve new courts when four or five would have been enough for the population.
It just seems so excessive.
Especially here - in one of the poorest states in the union, where just over a 1/3 of the population is getting some form of direct government assistance.
I just don't get it.
Posted by: kelsi | January 28, 2012 at 05:42 PM