By Tandy Versyp
Break At Arnold Hall
You’ve just sat through a long discussion about art’s impact on society or something liberal at the newest addition to the SCAD building family, Arnold Hall, and now you have fifteen minutes to search, explore, and/or stuff your face because you missed breakfast. What do you do on break at Arnold Hall?
Most of the other halls have a convenience store or restaurant nearby:
Crites—Chevron, Hamilton and Adler—the BP, Eichberg—Ex Libris, i.e. Jittery Joes, Eckberg—The Streamliner Café. And Arnold Hall is catty cornered from Pizza Rustica.
Pizza Rustica is a charming mom and pop restaurant in an old Victorian home made pizzeria. Slide in the side door entrance and enjoy the speedy service and homey environment. They have a few five dollar deals—two slices and a drink, one slice, a small salad and a drink, and tuna or chicken salad with a drink—and the other quick meals are not much more expensive. And it tastes a lot better than Café SCAD.
If you’re not hungry and a future cancer patient, you can hang out and indulge your nicotine addiction in Thomas Park, which is across the street next to the Bull Street Library.
Or if you’re feeling existential, go on a fifteen-minute serendipitous journey through the neighborhood. Unlike many of the areas around SCAD buildings, this one is not completely gentrified yet. It’s on its way, but that’s what makes it fascinating. There is an interesting culture-clash near Arnold Hall: Notre Dame Academy, First Class Barber Shop, Jeanette’s Alterations and Design, Something To Talk About Beauty Salon and Nails, and those are only the schools and businesses. People from many different social and economic classes jog, walk and saunter down this section of Bull St. Don’t be scared. Soak it in. You just might be inspired. And only in fifteen minutes.
