And was basically fully repaired 6 months later.
I don't know why Galveston is even on this list.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/26/2010 10:45:30 AM PDT by dragnet2
Most of America’s Ten Dead Cities were once major manufacturing hubs and others were important ports or financial services centers. The downfall of one city, New Orleans, began in the 1970s, but was accelerated by Hurricane Katrina.
Notably, the rise of inexpensive manufacturing in Japan destroyed the ability of the industrial cities on this list to effectively compete in the global marketplace. Foreign business activity and US government policy were two of the three major blows that caused the downfall of these cities. The third was the labor movement and its demands for higher compensation which ballooned the costs of manufacturing in many of these cities as well.
#1. Buffalo
#2. Flint
#3. Hartford
#4. Cleveland
#5. New Orleans
#6. Detroit
#7. Albany
#8. Atlantic City
#9. Allentown
#10. Galveston.
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Michigan has 2 cities on this list.
“I always liked the Railroad Museum and my wife liked the old mansion tours.”
I *love* Galveston. The Rosenberg is a jewel. I am a big fan of the Texas Seaport Museum and the Strand. But it’s kinda like loving that old-codger family member that is indulging in self-destructive behavior. Ya can’t stop ‘em, and it hurts to watch.
And was basically fully repaired 6 months later.
I don't know why Galveston is even on this list.
From what I’ve seen personally, Detroit and Cleveland rival Beirut architecture/cityscape.
we’ll never know how many trade deals have gone bad for the US on the basis of intent, or just simple incompetence.
Maybe they lost the Chiquita banana contract and they ship to Veracruz, then some of those well-maintained Mexican trucks haul them up here.
New Orleans isn’t dead, it just smells funny.
The Unions should be made to pay reparations.
“Galveston was Houston’s port, until Houston politicians got the Corps of Engineers to dredge a navigable channel through Galveston Bay, and they built their own port. The ships sailed right past Galveston and the city died.”
Actually, Galveston was still a bigger port than Houston until after WWII. What really killed the Port of Galveston was the Container Revolution. Houston was an early-adaptor (the first containers landed at the Port of Houston). Galveston — in part because of unions and in part because it was still the more successful port at that time — stuck with break-bulk until Houston had a massive, massive advantage in containerization. Then it became an also-ran.
Same thing happened in New Orleans and many of the big East Coast port towns. Container ports were set up outside them (above and below New Orleans in the case of that city) and the traditional break-bulk ports dried up and blew away in the 1990s.
Same story in Europe. Liverpool and London were Britain’s biggest cargo ports. Today it is Colchester and Southampton. (Southampton got lucky — the container revolution hit at the same time as the airline revolution. Southampton containerized because it saw the passenger liner trade going away and was willing to use the quay-side railroads to load containers instead of passengers.)
I agree that it is an odd place to live but I'm not sure your point about taxes is right - - the state government is funded largely by income taxes that are mostly paid from parts of Fairfield County and then spent across the rest of the state. And money is paid out directly from the state to the towns in the form of education aid, which is effectively a transfer from the wealthier places to the poorer ones. Looked at that way, the dead cities of Connecticut have been hugely subsidized by the thriving places for decades. Yet the cities still rot because they are cesspools of all our modern liberal-caused ills (welfare state, uncontrolled immigration, etc...)
Only two Michigan cities on the list? I’m shocked Saginaw, Benton Harbor, Pontiac, and Ypsilanti didn’t make the list.
Interesting. I had never heard that.
Well thank you for your very detailed response to my question. And to others as well who responded. I live in CA and have never been to the Houston area. I have been to Dallas and have always admired the the pro-business attitude and environment of the Metroplex. Sure wish we had that here in CA, where the attitude towards business in Sacramento seems to be: And don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
That Greyhound track is pretty empty too. They hold midget car races in the parking lots on Sunday. Mall of the Mainland across the highway is doing nothing, hasn’t done much for years. It is a mystery to me why Florida is jamed packed and the same topography in Galveston county is doing squat. And this is before NASA (Not About Space Anymore) and the oil business took direct hits from Obama.
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Cities that should be on this list:
Gary, Indiana
East St. Louis, Il.
Newark, NJ
Trenton, NJ
St. Louis, Mo.
Pine Bluff, Ar.
Danville, Va.
Quad Cities, Ia/Il.
Oh Hooray!! My home state’s capital, Hartford is #3!! /s
I’ve never understood the thing against the “Fat cats.”
FDR came from big-time old money, and so did JFK. Lyndon Johnson came from a modest background, but was super-rich when president. Carter wasn’t “just” a peanut farmer, he was a very successful and wealthy peanut farmer. Obama, Clinton, both fairly wealthy.
They hate rich people, yet they vote for rich people. Strange disconnect.
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