Text 25435, 114 rader
Skriven 2006-11-24 10:40:24 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 25432 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Election
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Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

 MG>>>> (snippage)

 EH>>>>> If you want to see a monument to the way to plan a city, take a
 MG>>>> trip to
 EH>>>>> Salt Lake City. It was set up like a great wheel radiating from the
 EH>>>>> center of the city and the streets are like a grid with the
 MG>> addresses
 EH>>>>> pointing you to a specific spot on that grid. It is difficult to
 EH> get
 EH>>>>> lost once you understand the grid.

 MG>>>> Several north western cities are built like that. Great Falls, MT
 EH>>> is and
 MG>>>> I think Seattle is, too.

 EH>>> The planners of Seattle should never have built Seattle where it is.
 EH>>> After Seattle had been established, they decided to make it easier to
 EH>>> navigate the extreme hills by removing them and using the tons of
 EH> dirt
 EH>>> to fill in the tidal area south of Pioneer Square. The new sports
 EH>>> stadiums are built on that man-made land.

 MG>> Filled in land is never a good thing. I hope you're not a fan of
 MG>> whatever teams play in those stadiums.

 EH> Not to worry, I'm not that big a sports fan in the first place.

Baruch Hashem!

 MG>> Look to San Francisco's 1989
 MG>> quake, the Marina district was built on the rubble dump site from the
 MG>> 1906 quake; the ground shook the Marina liquefied. Don't tell me they
 MG>> don't have earthquakes in Seattle, there are earthquakes everywhere!

 EH> There is a major fault in the Puget Sound area. We have as many, if not
 EH> more quakes than California. We also have 3 dormant and one semi-dormant
 EH> volcanoes in the area.

 EH> Liquifaction is a major problem with man-made land next to water. Back a
 EH> few years ago there was a 7+ quake here (the epicenter was about 10
 EH> miles south of here) and a lot of the damage was in Seattle (40 miles
 EH> north of here). Most of that damage was in that area. There is a
 EH> double-decker freeway (sound familiar?) across the man-made land. There
 EH> was some structural damage to that freeway. They are now talking about
 EH> replacing that part of the highway (US 99). The Seattle mayor wants a
 EH> tunnel.

If you ever find yourself in San Diego for a few days don't stay at the
Marriott at the Embarcadero (it's on filled land). As to tunnels, not being an
engineer I was sure that the tunnel (tube really) that the BART train passes
through to get from Oakland to San Francisco would be demolished if a big one
hit. It rode out the 1989 quake easily.

 MG>>>> What I like about the concept of planned
 MG>>>> communities is that they don't just build willy-nilly like LA is.
 EH> You
 MG>>>> may have figured this out by now; I hate LA! As far as I'm concerned
 MG>>>> there are only two places in LA that are worth visiting; Venice and
 MG>>>> Hollywood blvd. I'm a nut for architecture and both of those places
 EH>>> have
 MG>>>> some great buildings and they've refurbished the Egyptian! It's a
 EH>>> grand
 MG>>>> old theater built by Sid Grauman (he of Grauman's Chinese) in the
 EH> day
 MG>>>> when they were movie palaces. Venice once had actual canals (hence
 MG>> the
 MG>>>> name) and is stock full of adorable little cottages. I wish I could
 EH>>> have
 MG>>>> seen it at the turn of the 20th century, I've seen pictures, but
 EH> it's
 MG>>>> just not the same.

 EH>>> Some of those turn-of-the-century buildings are interesting.

 MG>> Hollywood has some really crazy stuff, but then again they've torn
 EH> down
 MG>> some of the best stuff. There was a court shaped complex built by a
 MG>> silent movie star (I can't remember her name, but if you Google the
 EH> name
 MG>>  of this complex you'll find loads of information on it. The place was
 MG>> called the Garden of Allah (it had nothing to do with Arabs or
 EH> Muslims).
 MG>> I would have loved to see that place before they tore it down and
 EH> turned
 MG>> the land into a strip mall. Back in the 30s the fad was apartment
 EH> hotels
 MG>> on Hollywood blvd, I would have liked to see the insides of the
 MG>> Hollywood Roosevelt (for example) before they chopped up the
 EH> apartments
 MG>> and turned it into a skid row SRO. :(

 EH> You know what they say about progress... :-)

I know that the opposite of pro is con ergo the opposite of progress is
congress. :)

-- 
L'Chaim

Mimi

In the beginning
the Word already was.

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