In a message dated 97-12-09 07:19:07 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

> Towns like Black Hawke, Central
>  City, and Crested Butte may have experienced this.  Up there the new
>  panning for gold takes the form of slot machines and roulette tables.  The
>  gambling houses have lots of money and are often coming into Colorado from
>  other states and have little regard for the historic fabric of what they
>  see as Podunk, CO.

The event of facadectomy in Poland is of a different breed than what has been
talked about on this thread - which started in Chicago on the USICOMOS list.

In Poland the Germans, Soviets and Allied bombing literally removed the
buildings to the foundations. Anything short of the rebuilding of the historic
built-environment would actually look like a really bad housing project - as
most of the Soviet era construction appears to be. There is a compulsion to
rebuild culture, freedom, and the history of a Nation -- to realize the dreams
of Poland. To put back that which had been forceably removed from them. Yes,
there is the desire for economic tourism, but the motivation goes much deeper
than that.

In contrast, Native Americans, build casinos.

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