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Originally Posted by viewguysf
The same type of idiots who demolished the Roxy and gutted your Paramount, just like ours who destroyed the San Francisco Fox. Those were incredible palaces that can never be created again, unlike our 60's Fox Plaza highrise which replaced the theater.  |
Not to play the "mine is bigger than yours" game, but in the 1950s there was actually a proposal to route I-20 (the main E-W interstate through Atlanta) directly through the historic downtown. Yes, the state actually considered demolishing ALL the buildings from the early 1900s. It was eventually moved south a bit, but we have still had a virtual plague of building demolitions...many of them which haven't even resulted in new development.
Case in point: what the hell were people thinking during this decade?