25 April 2011, 01:34 PM
dandelionGatsby House Demolished!
A literary history tragedy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...y/main20054710.shtmlWhich raises the questions:
--Does anyone know of any historic preservation interests or actions by Ray other than getting a plaque placed at the Laurel and Hardy steps?
--Are any historic preservation or landmark efforts being made to sites significant to Ray?
27 April 2011, 08:52 AM
philnicShocking! I think there would be an outcry if that happened in the UK!
You second question brings us back to the old chestnut of the Carnegie library in Waukegan (who knows if anything will ever be done with that). And also to the plaque that Stephen Leiva blogged about the other day (the old powerhouse).
27 April 2011, 12:41 PM
dandelionGlad to learn of the powerhouse plaque.
Americans do not have the sense of historic preservation Europeans do. Witness the home of Walt Disney, which has been discussed here before. Witness the historic Ambassador Hotel in L. A., mentioned in Ray's story "By the Numbers."
05 June 2011, 10:29 PM
Mr. DarkSad to see. I don't believe everything from the past has to be preserved, but this should have. One of the first books of "real" literature I read. It's impact on our culture was amazing. Thanks for flagging this.
06 June 2011, 08:23 PM
Braling IILiberace's house hardly draws any tourists these days. Well, maybe not as sad as all that...
08 June 2011, 12:32 PM
Mr. DarkDid a paper in Boston a couple years ago on Theodore Dreiser. I had never been to the area. We went and saw the houses of Emerson, Hawthorne, Walden Pond, the location of the first shot of the American Revolutionary War in Concord, the graves of Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Emerson, and lots of other sites. There is a sense of place that we need to be careful to preserve.
08 June 2011, 06:12 PM
dandelionTo me, Gatsby's house is worth more than all of these put together:
http://realestate.msn.com/blog...624b48ae97>1=35011I mean, seriously, John Saul?
27 April 2012, 04:28 PM
dandelionPresumably Fitzgerald was inspired by two different estates for Gatsby's house, or else one of these was Gatsby's and the other was Tom and Daisy Buchanan's house, as they can hardly be selling it this year if it was torn down last year.
http://www.newsday.com/classif...oint-sells-1.3669075