Posted on 04/18/2024 5:11:03 PM PDT by Racketeer
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. This is what American cities looked like a century ago. Everything you see here was demolished. Why?
Looking through the past we have to wonder how did this happen? Who is at fault? Will we ever see this again?
This is the consequence for turning our back on God and kicking Him out of our hearts and the public square.
(Will we ever see this again?)
Unfortunately, no.
The first set of photos are from World's Fair's, which have ALWAYS, the world over, for the vast majority of the structures, are built to ONLY last during the time of the fair!
In Chicago, a few buildings were saved and put to good use as museums of different kinds.
In NYC, fewer buildings were saved from the '38 World's Fair; however, one building was then turned into a public ice and rollerskating rinks.
No it isn’t, some things have always been built as short term, leading to obsolescence.
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So glad you made this point. Even North Korea can carefully manufacture the appearance of a perfect society for Western tourists who bother to visit. World’s Fairs, Olympic Villages, Communist utopia Cities, it’s all the same concept. If it’s temporary and the forces of the state command and fund its construction with the ideal of looking good, it will look good. If it doesn’t look good in a capitalist regime, the private actor loses business. If it doesn’t look good in a centralized regime, the [chosen scapegoat] gets to experience the wonders of social justice.
I beleive I read that POTUS Trump is promising to bring back the World’s Fair. My comments to the attached twitter link had more to do with the art and buildings still standing today and the one working parent family with a nice house, cars, and college education for their children.
What happened to that?
Let’s look at cherry-picked examples to support a weak thesis
In San Diego, Balboa Park preserves the setting and various buildings from its Pan American expo in the early 1900s. They were indeed built to be temporary and have had to be fixed over the years.
Golden material for a tagline!
“””””In San Diego, Balboa Park preserves the setting and various buildings from its Pan American expo in the early 1900s. They were indeed built to be temporary and have had to be fixed over the years.”””””
When the Balboa park Old Globe Theater burned in 1978 I was one of the volunteers helping to rebuild it.
While I appreciate the point being made, most of the glorious 1893 buildings at the fair were made of plaster of Paris and were never intended to stand permanently. They were built fast (not fast enough to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus) and were basically eye candy.
Ditto, St. Louis 1904.
“Tradition is not...”
Yes, that quote alone makes this a worthy thread! But clearly freepers are wiser than tweeters. We know stuff ;)
Exactly so and thank you for being able to see the reality, unlike the the person who tweeted this nonsense!
Very cool! I was in high school when that fire happened. Just a few years later, in college, I got to usher in the rebuilt Old Globe. It’s a treasured San Diego institution, for sure.
Interesting, if you ever ran into a really good looking guy drinking beer on the beach, that was me.
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