And the crowd goes wild with applause!
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"Gray, Tom" wrote:

> Sorry, gonna have to inject my two cents worth here!  If "someone" wants
> new, go build it in suburbia (or as in-fill at worst)!  If it's historic and
> not endangered, better to leave it the F___ alone than to try to make it
> "clean" and totally obliterate the signs of how it got from its origin to
> the present.  I personally don't care if its an "A", a "C", or a "P"; the
> damage and loss are all the same.  That said, I'm not against maintenance
> and care, I'm just against trying to make something with a history to share
> look too sanitary.  Buildings develop patina just like furniture, and that
> needs to be maintained without destroying it.
>
> Tom Gray