Disposable Outcome
I live in a town just North-West of Phoenix. With the exception of a few misplaced year living in Southern California and Texas, I’ve been here most of my life. Phoenix has been around for quite a while so it’s got quite a bit of history. One of the more disappointing things I find about Phoenix is it’s lack of visual history. Meaning this:
Downtown used to have quite a bit of vintage and historic building kicking about. Buildings that had quite a range from the 60’s all the way back to the turn of the century. There was a an old hotel or apartment that had a date on the outside that said 1888. Over the years, many of these buildings have disappeared. Bulldozed and replaced with something newer and more modern. Larger buildings or complexes designed to make better use of the space and give the good people downtown something to do. Now I’m for progress just as much as the next guy, but sometimes progress can obliterate the past. And sometimes, that newer thing isn’t better than what it replaced. That appartment I was talking about, it was bulldozed 20 or so years ago. What replaced it? A beautiful parking lot. I kid you not.
Progress isn’t always progressive.
Jalopys need love too.
It’s a shame when progress over rides historical
yeah. It’s usally driven by the pursuit of the almighty dollar (or pound).
That’s a sad story. Thankfully, Atlanta and Georgia in general embraces most of the areas historical architecture, which consequently is turning into an unusual asset as the region becomes the East Coast center for film and tv production.
We drove though Atlanta when I was a kid. I remember going to a place called Underground Atlanta. Someplace where they essentially covered over a city block and left all the lower parts of the buildings and streets intact below.
Phoenix has it’s historical areas too, just not as numerous as some other cities like San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago. Phoenix seems to give way to the almighty dollar in the end.
Happens everywhere I think. It is a shame sometimes.
Our smaller towns in PA have historical areas, where the owners aren’t allowed to even paint an outside door without permission and they must be painted historically correct. It’s great that they are preserving some areas.
We have historical area too. There’s a nice historical area in the downtown area but it’s in the area of the science center and Arizona Historical Museum. Very limited in the buildings that are there.