Reply #19: More info than anyone needs to know [View All]

[MADem]

...but hey, I'll tell ya anyway. I was coming in aboard a vessel in the early 90s, taking vids of the sights of NYC, and I was narrating my vid with snarky and otherwise remarks (I'm big on remarks). I recalled that going out and coming back in to NYC, way back in the sixties, that the skyline was not sullied by those hideous monstrosities that in my opinion, totally ruined the view. I always thought they were ugly. I always thought they defiled a once classic skyline. I won't even go into the traffic mess they made, screwing up the "grid" of the city.

Now, I feel terrible about the death and destruction. I found that dispicable. But I cannot retrospectively wax nostalgic about the towers. I found them hideous, an offense to the architectural style of the city. An offense to the way traffic flowed, the way the people lived...it was almost as though business was more important than folk. And I just could never get behind that attitude.

Still, though--ain't my city, I have no call to bitch. If people want to memorialize, remember, beat breasts, get angry...it is their right, and they should go for it. No argument from me.

Not my town, so what I say does not count.

just my lousy opinion...