Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] New Orleans.. RIP?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 9/1/05, Jerry Gamblin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 
> The French Quarter may have historic architecture but isn't something
> that hasn't be reproduced.

s/be/been ?

OK, so all I can say here is that you are massively unlikely to see
any other place in the US that is anything like the French Quarter. 
These days, we build cities around our need for automobiles, and
development tends to be cookie cutter.  The French Quarter is almost
exactly the opposite of this.  Not everybody has a great love for this
kind of thing, but to argue that we can or could have it anywhere
is...odd.
 
> New Orleans has about as much historic Value as Huston, St.Louis, or
> Kansas City.  Nice towns but its like they are anything more then
> cities.

I'm not a fan of "historic value" because it leads people to a weird
kind of nostalgia that can doesn't really help much as the world spins
on.  When I lived in Pittsburgh, people talked about the Historic
Value of the rusted hulks of abandoned steel mills.  And, sure, one or
two of them were worth preserving, but most of it was just taking up
space and oozing heavy metals into the soil and the river.

I'm kind of a free market guy in this regard.  What cities do people
actually like to go to on vacation?  On that scale, N.O. >>> St. Louis
> (KC, Houston).  Maybe more people go to Houston than I'm imagining,
but N.O. is a *top* tourist draw,  and that means that people aren't
putting it in the same category as KC, STL, or Houston.

jking

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