My daughter just returned from a 5 day high school trip, and was telling us all about it. “Mama, you’ll be both delighted and dismayed about my hotel room,” she started. “Delighted because it was wheelchair accessible – the bathroom…
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Ever notice that it’s really hard to find handicapped permit parking at retirement homes? Just about every one I’ve been to has “Residents Only” parking up front, visitor parking in back forty, and no handicapped permit parking. A couple of…
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As a corollary to my posting about the Academy of Ancient Music concert, I’ll give Macky Auditorium at CU Boulder kudos for their accomodations for wheelchair using patrons. Macky was originally built in 1914. Parking is extremely limited. The site…
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Dillard’s department store. Six sleek black heavy glass doors in a row. On the last door, the universal access symbol, with the following under it: DILLARD’S CARES ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE If you have any difficulty in our store because of…
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Churches in the US are not subject to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, because we believe that it is important in our society not to subject religious institutions to (some of) the government’s whims. Which is why,…
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This weekend my husband and a bunch of guys from work poured a concrete wheelchair ramp along the front walk and up to the front door, and the jury-rigged plywood Ramp of Death at the back door is no more!…
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