They did a town renewal and it was a joke. One attraction was the Barber Museum. I guess they thought that millions would flock to it. Lasted 3 months I think. Then there was another museum where the director made off with all the valuables saying he was protecting them in storage or some such idiocy.
Live a the little town of South Haven in MI. We used to have foundries and factories, but NAFTA and Globalization closed them all. Now we are a tourist town and as the former workers sell their homes and move away, this is exactly what occurs. Tear it down and build a huge multi-bedroom and baths house, then rent it out for boo coo cash during the summer.
In California, you often have to rebuild the historic structures to modern earthquake standards. Building collapse is not viable form of historical reenactment.
ibFrank 11 months ago
Out with the old in with the old.
Tra1nman2 Premium Member 11 months ago
Urban renewal in the 1960s and ’70s… what a dismal failure that was.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 11 months ago
They did a town renewal and it was a joke. One attraction was the Barber Museum. I guess they thought that millions would flock to it. Lasted 3 months I think. Then there was another museum where the director made off with all the valuables saying he was protecting them in storage or some such idiocy.
Skeptical Meg 11 months ago
They took all the trees put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar an’ a half just to see ’em
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
Serial Pedant 11 months ago
but consider all the money that changed hands!
akachman Premium Member 11 months ago
Nailed it.
RadioDial Premium Member 11 months ago
Yer lucky if you got back a museum. It was/is mostly a parking lot or some cheaply made beige box.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member 11 months ago
Live a the little town of South Haven in MI. We used to have foundries and factories, but NAFTA and Globalization closed them all. Now we are a tourist town and as the former workers sell their homes and move away, this is exactly what occurs. Tear it down and build a huge multi-bedroom and baths house, then rent it out for boo coo cash during the summer.
mistercatworks 11 months ago
In California, you often have to rebuild the historic structures to modern earthquake standards. Building collapse is not viable form of historical reenactment.
daisypekin01 11 months ago
par for the course!
face.less_b 11 months ago
You misspelled a word. It is Olde Museum.
Code the Enforcer 11 months ago
Gentrification with it’s most honest face – (not a good one, either) !! …