(DOWNLOAD) "Parking (Porking) at Grand Center (Grand Center, St. Louis, Missouri)" by Joe Pollack * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Parking (Porking) at Grand Center (Grand Center, St. Louis, Missouri)
- Author : Joe Pollack
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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A bout 50 years ago, when construction plans were being made for a more comfortable, better designed and less expensive downtown Busch Stadium than the one we have today, we learned that the last remaining burlesque house in the city, Harry Wald's memorable Grand Theatre, was to be demolished as part of the stadium footprint. I wrote at the time that St. Louis had decided that night baseball was more important than sex. Today, as a result of a money grab by Vince Schoemehl and his fellow arts lovers on the board of Grand Center, and a lack of courageous response by Mayor Francis Slay, a group of our city's most powerful citizens has obviously decided that night baseball is more important than theater, music, dance and other forms of cultural entertainment.