Your Hometown sounds like mine. I grew up in Orange, California, a citrus growing town, started in the 1880's.
At one time, it had a mission style city hall, a Carnegie Library, and one of the last Pacific Electric stations in Southern California. City Hall and the Library were bulldozed in the late '50's in favor of more modern structures, while the PE station made way for a parking lot. Funny thing is, the town's current claim to fame is its preservation of it's original downtown business area. Sadly, the only businesses left there are overpriced antique stores and trendy restaurants. Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 10:54 AM Subject: [Papermodels II 35494] Re: Is there a model of this? Interesting to say the least. HUGE too! What a waste, though, of a piece of history. Of, course when it was original decomissioned who'd a thunk. Reminds me of urban revitalisation in the 60's or so. All the beautiful buildings torn down and replaced by "modern effeciency" - YUK! The city I grew up in had a beautiful armory, marble post office, police station, library and other public building built from early 1800's destroyed and replaced with c**p. JoeG -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hungerford <[email protected]> To: Papermodels II <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:34 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 35489] Is there a model of this? I don't recall seeing one, but it's an odd enough subject to suit *my* tastes. :-) http://www.shorpy.com/node/5843 -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html Fools! I will destroy you all! (Ask me how!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lose weight like TV's Biggest Loser finalists. Start w/ a FREE Weight-Loss Plan! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
