Michael Reagan: “Pls.For the last time my fathers real boyhood homes in Tampico and Dixon are fine.PLEASE dont buy into the Chicago story.”
https://twitter.com/ReaganWorld/statuses/297115575744880642
Probably the same thing could be said of many other icons that memorialize individuals. But what the memorialized would’ve thought about it isn’t the point - its for us to remember them by.
Destroying something beautiful for a parking lot is nothing new.
About 45 years ago, I believe it was LIFE magazine had an article about a beautiful Victorian mansion in Boston(?).
It was sold to a large company and locals wanted to completely restore it to it’s original beauty as it was something to see! Even the local CARPENTER’S UNION agreed to do the job for free! Others wanted in on the deal to restore it FOR FREE, it was that beautiful!
Company officials decided to destroy it, and put up something they wanted more, a parking lot.