Boulder Colorado - What's Your Experience  

On my recent travels to Colorado I revisited Boulder Colorado. I use to love going to Boulder, especially Pearl Street mall because of the carnival feel of the place. There were sitar players, mimes, jugglers, musicians of all types and the colorful people. I was disappointed when I visited the other day. All that was gone. In the middle on the mall was a grassy area where people would and have their lunch and so on. It is now gone, all of it. Well it still has it's funky shops but the rest is gone. In it's place they paved the mall and bought in a bunch of National chain store. It is definitely not what it use to be. Have you ever been to Boulder, what is your experience there?