you screamed at the ___________ (City Council, School Board, Church Board, sports franchise ownership...) and they did it anyway.

If you're like me, you heard about some local group that planned to tear down this or that and you were iritated, but you didn't have the political clout to keep them from demolishing it.

For me it was the old junior high auditorium and gym. They needed new classrooms for the middle schoolers and I understood that, but the auditorium was somewhat detached from the rest of the building. They could have easily saved it while tearing down the rest of the building. Then the school board would have had more gym space for practices, and an auditorium that would accomodate over 300 people with the old theater seats and a gradually rising floor and a stage, etc. etc.
Now, they are in desperate need for added gym space and every year they have a big musical production in a gymnasium - which I get roped into going to. Just what you all want to see, a high school production of "South Pacific" where when everybody dances during the big production numbers you cant hear any singing, just a well-choreographed stampede. And you leave holding the back of your head in your hand thinking "I wonder if the chiropractor is still open, it's only 10:30" because you've been sitting ****-eyed in bleacher seats that are facing 90º the wrong direction. And accoustics. Don't get me started on the accoustics of that place!

So now I'm done. If they'd listened to me, we all would've been better off. When did the powers that be ignore you? Rant away.

 

reminds me of the high school wood shop and metal class here. they tore them down and now the school board has to contract with a private company to have simple things fixed or rewelded.

 

I sort of feel the same pain. They re did wiring in the computer lab at my school which happens to be in the same building as my metal shop. Now we've lost power to half the stick welders and the ones that have power are hard to use because of all the power fluctuations, they'll not want to start an arc, vary in power stuff like that, breakers constantly have to be flipped because they trip every day. Not to mention the shop floods on a regular basis because of rain and or pipe/hose failures. A 2 inch water main broke a couple weeks ago, flooded both shops and the class room in between. They also tore down the mill that the town was built around and havent done anything with the land, it was at least 100 years old when the ruined it, all they did was leave the cinder cone (where the burned wood scraps) at least they left most of the old houses, one of the first houses owned by the founder of the town is still standing and in good shape.

 

Not so much tore down, but quit using. Here are my examples:
-Tiger Stadium
-Maple Leaf Gardens
-Montreal Forum
-Boston Garden

Sports teams replacing their old buildings bugs me most. That's heritage; part of the teams history. Like Tiger Stadium, which the city of Detroit now wants to tear down, which would be a disgrace - it's a landmark. There's talk of the Yankees building a new stadium by 2009 or so, which would blemish the heritage of the team, IMO.

Trevor

 

the town i live live in allows the developers to tear down pretty much anything they want, " 100 years old" man thats new! in the past few years they have torn down many houses that were 200 years old and one that was built in 1740 and another that was built in 1666. they just dont care.

 

soldier feild
comisky park
busch stadium (as soon as the cards lose)