[Leica] Re: Downtown B'ham

[ahgraves at prodigy.net (Allen Graves)]

As a resident of B'ham in the late70's  through the 80's and as an 
occasional visitor now (4-5 x/year - my inlaws live there) I can say 
that NONE of that looks like downtown B'ham. The building on another 
of their pages (http://www.leercorp.com/leertower.htm)  used to house 
a defunct S&L and has had more false stories about its future than a 
4th Ave N hooker could make up since. Beware.

Allen


>friends,
>
>i'm in need of a little help in bullshit detection.  the URL below 
>links to the homepage of a condo development company that is about 
>to start rehabbing a historical building in downtown birmingham.   i 
>applaud downtown redevelopment, but i do not appreciate the amount 
>of bullshit in both the text and art on this page:
>
>of the four photographs on the right, only the third one down is a 
>photograph of a location in birmingham.  i'd to ask your help in 
>identifying the other three.
>
>for the record, misleading statements in the text include the 
>description of the future condo building's neighborhood as 
>"friendly," when it is actually an abandoned area of urban blight, 
>and the claim that the building is located near birmingham's light 
>rail nexus, when we have no light rail whatsoever (unless you 
>consider amtrak and norfolk-southern "light").
>
>here's the url:
>
>http://www.leercorp.com/n.htm
>
>--
>brad daly
>brad@bradbrad.com
>http://www.bradbrad.com
>
>What Would Bill Hicks Say?
>
>"Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all 
>mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths 
>to their private parts."
>     --Vladimir Nabokov
>
>
>
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