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Prevention

A sub-Forum to discuss Preservation, Demolitions, and history of historic buildings.

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Prevention

Postby Cedar on Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:29 pm

Yes, most of us here could be brought to tears over a beloved landmark's being taken to ball-and-chain or bulldozer, but what about structures being newly erected? Can't they cause their own special brand of grief? :bigcry:

... or in some cases, freak :!: So it was for me recently upon first beholding -- and even venturing into the bowels of for a concert -- Winstar Casino near Thackerville, Oklahoma. The Red River herself must be shaking her sands and meager waters in order to adjust to this kind of change :o Why bring the icons of Western Europe to the Red Nations :?: I know and try to understand -- $$ -- but do the ends justify the gaudy means which are being thrust upon the natural environment? Maybe.

Rest assured ~ I accept the decisions of the Chickasaw Nation by faith, but oh! This is a new brand of Tent City :gloomy:

http://www.winstarworldcasino.com/

No images posted online do the present and fluid (actually, concrete) growth of Winstar justice: this must be experienced first-hand. What goes on inside a casino is the business of the hosts and players; what our eyes behold from the exterior touches all who encounter it.

Yet, an okay sound and a nice, mid-sized venue are offered by Winstar ... once within and beyond the betting machines :)
History as the new religion? I can live with that.

~ Tracy Chevalier
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Re: Prevention

Postby Cedar on Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:00 pm

I have to say that much of the altered, natural environment of my own black-prairie hometown of Richardson, Texas -- put in place during the mid-1950s through the decade following -- strikes a chord internally for me now, so maybe even this ... for those north of the Red? Time works its strange magic, and there is really no such thing as landscape purity ...
History as the new religion? I can live with that.

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