Reply #9: I'm reminded of Trump's "Steel Pier" in Atlantic City... [View All]

[FormerDittoHead]

They say you can't go back home.

Having grown up in Atlantic City, I was all too disappointed when I went to the new "Steel Pier" in front of one of Trump's casinos to see basically a flat pier with the kind of amusement rides they use at church carnivals with a "next day signs" banner with "TRUMP'S Steel Pier" on it. Why did the casinos have to build everything to look like something BESIDES Atlantic City? In one of the new piers (which is a MALL) they have a "museum" of pictures from the 1800's of the "old" Atlantic City - as if the Atlantic City of the 1950's and 60's never existed...

New Orleans was killed. Plaster walls, cast iron and tin ceilings were destroyed - it costs too much to put anything back except drywall and plastic. They just don't make the old stuff any more, expecially in any great variety, and the kind of skilled labor that was used to build it the right way is now way too expensive (or non-existent).

There WILL be ONE or TWO areas "preserved" simply because the owners had pockets deep enough to do the job right. You can safely expect NOLA to get a "skyline" complete with condos and the "Ragin' Cajun' retirement developments.