[PRCo] Re: PAT's cuts

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> "K-town" used to have about 200,000 which was 100,000 American sericemen, dependents, retirees and 100,000 Germans.   After we started chopping, I felt rather sorry because they didn't have a congressman to run to.   It wasn't just the military.   One of their biggest factories was the GM engine plant for Opals.
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> You work for GM?
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> On the subject of urban renewal (runinal?) ... Lancaster, PA tried it too.   David Schuyler, an F&M professor, wrote a book on the subject about how we tear down the bad neighborhoods without considering where the people will move ... it generally creates multiple bad neighborhoods as we move into the future.   He also talks about how we renewed downtown which was aging and tarnished but people went there.   No now no one goes to the block that was renewed. We will now renew it again.   The department store became a bomb fuse factory and now its empty.   The headquarters building for Armstrong Cork is empty.  The hotel ... well it was shut down for an entire year because of unrepaired defects.   Why?  No one goes to city hotels so the city retaliated and built a new one two blocks away ... a convention center ... to compete with it.  That way we can have two empty hotels.   :<)   Who pays for it?   A tax on the suburban hotels / motels.
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> http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02207-8.html
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Ordered.

Maybe in 2011 sometime I can read it