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CAT Tracks for September 28, 2025
BIG YELLOW TAXI...CAIRO VERSION |
Okay, so maybe nobody ever called the Connell F. Smith Sr. Building (aka the High Rise) paradise, but...
...it was a blessing for people with a low income, seniors, and people with disabilities.
As you probably know, the federal government decided that Cairo was in danger of getting hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and that the walls would come tumbling down. Having such care and concern for the residents (drip, drip, dripping sarcasm!), HUD ordered its demolition.
Did they replace it with something that would house those whom they so unceremoniously evicted?
Well, I took a proverbial Sunday afternoon drive and went down to see...
If my Big Yellow Taxi reference was too obscure for you, it's because you are either too young, it was written and released in 1970...55 years ago! (Time does fly, whether you're having fun or not!)...
...or you are too effing old, like me, and suffer from CRS.
Anyway, the ear worm that's still bouncing around my brain goes:
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Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Speaking of housing, here's an update on the 3-D house that was supposed to alleviate the damage done by HUD:
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Sigh.
