Posted on 09/18/2005 10:16:59 PM PDT by Stoat
Should I assume that each brick will be numbered and mapped via 3-D CAD so that each brick will be returned to it's original location relative to the others?
What about the pipes, conduit, wiring and other elements of the house?
Lawdy, this just sounds soooooo weird to me.
I am the Starr...
Keu-keu-kachoo...
Why only 11 streets? Liverpool in it's entirety is due for demolition.
"It Don't Come Easy"...
Don't think Ringo's worth it. I mean, I realize these people grew up during that time and are on a nostalgia buzz, but 50 years from now is anybody going to care?
There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
From the article:
"People like the city's authentic character, not packaged replicas."
Having visited England but not Liverpool I will have to go by your description of the city. Do I understand, then, that there are apparently people there who view dirty, ancient, tumbledown industrial tracts as an "authentic character" worth preserving at any cost?
Is there something in the water there that is making them completely insane?
Hey - not all of it, my parents still live there!!
The suburbs are still nice, but Toxteth has a bad reputation (as in riots..)
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Perhaps I would feel differently if I were a huge Beatles fan, but I can hardly imagine it. The music may have been interesting at that particular moment in time, but I don't see an eternal value to it....certainly not worthy of this sort of preservation effort. Preserve the music, that's fine. But an old brick house? I could see it (maybe) if it was the home of an absolutely 'essential' figure of profound historical significance, but the Beatles' drummer? "pounding furry stoat head on table"
Bullocks!
Is the birthplace of Stephen Foster still a big attraction? He was probably as close as anybody came to being the Beatles of the 19th century.
I'm sure that you had a good time and that it was quite meaningful to you because I'm sure that you were (or remain) a huge Beatles fan, but do you honestly think that it's appropriate to extend this sort of near-religious reverence to the drummer of a pop band? They are going to VERY CAREFULLY take the entire house apart brick by brick and STORE IT, apparently to reassemble at an as-yet undisclosed location.
If you were a resident of Liverpool, would you want your tax money spent in this way? Just curious.
Bullocks to what?
Right off the top of my head, I don't know what the typical gate receipts are for the Foster Home Tour. However, I would suggest that Foster's music has more 'lasting' value, but that's just my own personal bias I suppose.
Would it be appropriate for tax money to be spent on carefully disassembling the Foster house, brick by brick, storing it and reassembling it exactly as it was at a different location?
I'm not sure.
I'm sorry if you misunderstood my comments as approving of taking the house down and storing it. I really don't care what they do with the house. I was just relating my experience in Liverpool, since this seemed to be kind of a light-hearted thread.
I don't know. Foster mostly survives on a few songs, as I suspect the Beatles will. Things like "Michelle" and "Yesterday" will probably stay sung for as long as "Oh Susanna" and "Camptown Races" have. But things like A&E putting the Beatles on a list of the "100 Most Important People of the Last Millenium" will die a deserved death with the Baby Boomers.
No apology necessary, it is I who should apologize for apparently coming across in the wrong way.
"extending furry stoat paw for a polite handshake"
This is definitely a lighthearted thread and your words and presence are all welcome here.
I suppose that I may have come across as overly strident in my tone because I am still rather baffled by this whole thing.
Please forgive me?
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