>>7812522>today and whatever it is that we made and tore down in our timeMost everything made today is designed to fall down all by itself within a hundred years. No need to waste time tearing it down.
BTW, a lot of these 'lost places' you lament suffered the same fate: they were made so poorly that they reached a state of falling down that could no longer be renovated.
There was a fantastic movie theater in a town near me, built during World War I. Beautiful open screening area with a stage to accommodate plays & bands & other events, soaring ceiling about 40 feet high and hand painted. Modern seating had been installed, and a modern, huge screen.They used to show all sorts of weird & eccentric cult movies & foreign films & other obscure stuff that you've never even heard of.
Turns out the roof was leaking, but the water damage was running down inside & between walls. It wasn't visible and nobody was doing proper inspections. When the damage became obvious, the place needed something like $12 million in renovations, and nobody stepped up to it. The city wouldn't support a movement to get it declared an historical building, among many other problems. So the property owner sold the property at auction for about a million and change, the whole structure was knocked down and carted off to a landfill, the plot became a parking lot for several years before a new building was constructed.
They didn't even try very hard to strip out all the furnishings of the old theater. It had all sorts of plaster work, statues, frescoes, hand painted walls, brass fittings & railings, huge mirrors from the 1920s everywhere. Just scooped up into a duumptruck and landfilled. One night some friends and me broke into the site and picked out a few things like lighting fixtures ... wired with bare copper wire wrapped in tar paper ... But, we couldn't perform a serious salvage effort. I had two of the light fixtures in my apartment for years that I re-wired. All else is landfill.
