XPost: phl.misc, phl.media   
   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On 17 Nov 2004 07:12:09 -0800, Jeff nor Lisa  wrote:   
   >Jayfar  wrote   
   >   
   >> An ad hoc group of preservationists and concerned Philadelphians will be   
   >> holding a noon rally this Saturday, November 20th in front of the   
   >> Convention Hall at 3400 Civic Center Blvd. We were horrified to learn   
   >> belatedly of the ongoing dismantlement of the interior of historic   
   >> Convention Hall and the University of Pennsylvania's plans to demolish   
   >> it and the adjacent Civic Center Museum building.   
   >   
   >I agree these buildings should be saved.  They are most historic.   
      
   This effort to save them is WAY too late. And there is a large   
   salvage operation going on to save a lot of the interior   
   fixtures. Most of it is going to a dealer in Baltimore but some   
   of it is staying here to be stored in a warehouse in NE   
   Phila.   
      
   >Unfortunately, this effort is way too late to have an effect.   
      
   Right.   
      
   >According to the Inqr, there are very firm plans for those sites.   
      
   There have been ideas for the land ever since the plan to move   
   the Convention Center to Center City came about which means   
   we're talking about 15 years ago or more.   
      
   Besides who, today, remembers PGH(Phila. General Hospital), which used   
   to be across the street from these buildings, and is currently   
   a medical research complex for Penn and CHOP. So the old   
   Convention Center buildings will be nothing but a quaint memory   
   eventually.   
      
   I love old buildings but you can not save every old building.   
   I'd rather see *jobs* be created in the city and that's what   
   will happen once the old Convention Center is gone.   
      
      
   KByrd   
      
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