goeduck
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Around here the public school districts want to tear down schools after 20 or 30 years and build new at taxpayer expense. The school I went to (Catholic) is still standing after 100 years and going strong.
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What was that noise?
My shirt fell.
It sounded louder than that.
I was in it.
My shirt fell.
It sounded louder than that.
I was in it.
Oaktree
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Seems odd there isn't even a fence between the plane parking area (I'm sure there's a proper term for it
) and the highway.
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Mr. Sixdogs, somehow I found my way into the ol' fart's club!!! It's not a bad place to be...
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We had several local airports growing up without any fences…Seems odd there isn't even a fence between the plane parking area (I'm sure there's a proper term for it
Simpler times maybe?
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There's been a lot of that around here, the last 10 years. The story I keep hearing is that building new is cheaper than retrofitting the old, which I suppose could be true.
The need to retrofit the "old" is population growth, and current requirements to remove lead and asbestos really drive up the cost of retrofitting the old.
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We keep paying for lead and asbestos remediation and at this point if these buildings still have lead and asbestos people need to go to prison…
On the flip side schools continue to close due to declining enrollments… families leaving or staying but pulling kids from the public school system…
On the flip side schools continue to close due to declining enrollments… families leaving or staying but pulling kids from the public school system…
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Or possibly more common sense.
Smarter people maybe?
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Those were different times, more respect for other's property, and more common sense as far as safety was concerned.Seems odd there isn't even a fence between the plane parking area (I'm sure there's a proper term for it
Did you notice the helicopter in flight to the left of center of the picture?
here is an amazing spectrum of planes in that picture form a Mooney Mini-Mite to a P-51 to a B-25. At one time they flew B-17s in and out of that strip. They also converted the B-25s to corporate planes, putting seating in the area where the bomb bays had been. Of course, the bomb bay doors were permanently fastened in place.