Sunday, April 21, 2019

Sunday Five - Buildings

This wonderful old building is next to the White House.  It was originally called the Executive Office Building.  When Eisenhower was Vice President he expressed his dislike for the old building and announced plans that when we was President he would have it torn down and replaced by an efficient modern building. Congress, being congress, renamed the building the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, and spent a considerable sum on modernizing it.  Eisenhower didn't feel he could tear down the building named in his honor, saving it from the wrecking ball.  I have never been invited in, maybe someday.  

Sunday Five - your ideas on how to get things done. 
1: What building in the place you currently live, should never be torn down? 
2: What should be built in your town? 
3: Is the High School you attended still standing? 
4: Would you be upset if the house you lived in as a child were torn down? 
5: If invited to spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, would you? 

My answers:
1: What building in the place you currently live, should never be torn down? The FBI building on Pennsylvania Avenue.  It a masterpiece and disaster of modern brutalist architecture.  It is functional incompatible with modern office.  There have been discussions of trading it to a developer in exchange for a nice modern building.  It should be renovated and repaired (it tends to drop shards of concrete like leaves from a maple tree in fall) and preserved.  It can be reused. 
2: What should be built in your town? A large mental health hospital, I am in Washington DC, it needs to be very large. 
3: Is the High School you attended still standing? The one in Michigan, Yes, I believe it is currently a middle school. The one in Florida was torn down and replaced - much needed - much delayed. 
4: Would you be upset if the house you lived in as a child were torn down? Nope, the one in Michigan should have gone years ago. 
5: If invited to spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, would you? Not under the current regime.  

Your answers in the comments.  

4 comments:

  1. 1: What building in the place you currently live, should never be torn down? The castle from 956 AD.
    2: What should be built in your town? Nothing more.
    3: Is the High School you attended still standing? Yes. Since 1929.
    4: Would you be upset if the house you lived in as a child were torn down? No.
    5: If invited to spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House, would you? Definitely.

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  2. 1: philadelphia city hall

    2: mental health/homeless facilities

    3: unfortunately yes

    4: nope; it was sold to someone else last year; I think my "parents" now live with my sister and BIL

    5: only if mayor pete & chasten ask me; the dump can go fuck himself

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  3. 1. They can all go.

    2. A decent restaurant. I haven't had breakfast yet.

    3. Built 1949, razed 2003, reopened 2007, so yes and no.

    4. See #1.

    5. No way, no how!

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  4. 1: nothing is worth keeping here in PHX
    2: A decent french restaurant.
    3: Yes although I'm told half of it is now some sort of community centre.
    4: no, only a bit sad ala mono no aware.
    5: Not with Herr Furor there.

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