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Monday, November 14, 2011
Berlin’s Pitts House Called Too Historic For Demolition
Owner asks and council says no in continuing boarded-window issueA Berlin house is a historic treasure and may not be demolished, the Berlin Historic District Commission told its owner last week. Reggie Mariner Jr. has been disgruntled that the boards covering the windows and doors of the Pitts house must be removed because the Town Council passed an ordinance requiring it.
Luckily most U.S. cities accept change are not populated with a bunch of old fogies like they are in Berlin. They are adjusting to modern times and making progress while those old farts in Berlin who still think we're living in the Fred Flintstone era are keeping the town moving towards their backwards ways. They think every single itty bitty piece of property in Berlin is "historic" when they are in fact "prehistoric", which is why it is the most lamest and boring U.S. cities I have ever visited in my life. What an eyesore!
Call them old fogies all you want. History in this country is as disposable as fries wrappers and used Kleenex. Berlin is a cute town because it gave a damn about preserving, unlike Salisbury that looks like any slum anywhere.
3:53 I agree and just because a home is in a historical district doesn't mean it is historically significant. Most towns and cities realize this and know if they halted the demolition of every old house in the district the district would become nothing but a bunch of dilapidated ramshackled huts.
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Luckily most U.S. cities accept change are not populated with a bunch of old fogies like they are in Berlin. They are adjusting to modern times and making progress while those old farts in Berlin who still think we're living in the Fred Flintstone era are keeping the town moving towards their backwards ways.
They think every single itty bitty piece of property in Berlin is "historic" when they are in fact "prehistoric", which is why it is the most lamest and boring U.S. cities I have ever visited in my life. What an eyesore!
Call them old fogies all you want. History in this country is as disposable as fries wrappers and used Kleenex. Berlin is a cute town because it gave a damn about preserving, unlike Salisbury that looks like any slum anywhere.
3:53 I agree and just because a home is in a historical district doesn't mean it is historically significant. Most towns and cities realize this and know if they halted the demolition of every old house in the district the district would become nothing but a bunch of dilapidated ramshackled huts.
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