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Beautiful colour footage of Smalltown America, 1954

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5/27/10 at 8:51am
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Hopefully not a repost
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/201...-america-1954/
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5/27/10 at 9:25am
Maplewood still looks like that.

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post #3 of 3
5/27/10 at 1:50pm
The concept of building aesthetic cityscapes is almost entirely gone from america now. Courthouses, libraries, schools etc used to be hand-built with stone to be monuments for the town, now they're just one-story pre-fab junk to be torn down every 40 years. Parks, boulevards, landscaping etc are relegated to suburbs. Architects care only about being trendy and making the latest buildings in vogue, in a hundred years most of the gothic/neo-classical building will probably be torn down. No one seems to get it... in the part of the country I'm from, a small town only needs 3 or 4 'historic' buildings and then it's all of a sudden flooded by tourists and high land values, yet it doesn't occur to anyone that maybe that means there's value in building classic structures. You guys in the UK would laugh if you saw what we considered 'historic.'
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