Wait A Minute... This Horse Ain't Quite Dead Yet!
So, how much milage are we allowed to get from one story? I dunno… let’s find out.
I was scouting the web and in particular, Google’s satellite images and that led to one thing and then another…
Okay, remember the $250,000 Albert Paley ugliness that the Muscogee Library Board was gonna pile in front of their new library? Yup, that one. Anyway… before there was a library, there was an empty lot and before that, a rather run-down mall. But for the sake of this little piece, let’s just go back as far as the empty lot and do a ‘Before and After’ and see how it all MIGHT have turned out had the board had their way… call it an exercise in what-iffery.
Points of interest are numbered for easy reference and here’s the key:
1 – Parking Lot. A large area capable of holding some 48 automobiles and just a mere 637 feet from the front doors of the library.
2 – Memorial to the Almighty Penny. This 100% copper likeness is 70 feet in diameter and weighs 13 tons. (Made from the pennies left over after paying for the parking lot.)
3 – The Albert Paley sculpture named “Transgarbification”. The Paley Vision Courtyard that surrounds it holds nearly 16 tons of various scrap metals and is worth a cool $3.88.
4 – The Sacred Sears Building, now home to the Muscogee County School and Library Boards who hold regular but cloistered meetings in the women’s apparel department on the second floor.
5 – Columbus Whitewater Park. After breaching the dams on the Chattahoochee and opening it to kayakers, it was found that the pollution coming from Atlanta was causing visitors to exhibit unusual growths upon their bodies… such as extra eyes and a few fingers sprouting where hair used to grow. This new park feeds from Lindsey Creek.
6 – Macon Road Temple to the Divine Sales Tax… otherwise known as the Public Library.
I was scouting the web and in particular, Google’s satellite images and that led to one thing and then another…
Okay, remember the $250,000 Albert Paley ugliness that the Muscogee Library Board was gonna pile in front of their new library? Yup, that one. Anyway… before there was a library, there was an empty lot and before that, a rather run-down mall. But for the sake of this little piece, let’s just go back as far as the empty lot and do a ‘Before and After’ and see how it all MIGHT have turned out had the board had their way… call it an exercise in what-iffery.
Here is the ‘Before’ shot with a large area that has been cleared of the old mall and the resulting debris. Recognizable is the old Sears building to the left and Macon Road, top... the former being a sacred area that will soon be the home of the hard working school board.
Now here is the ‘After’ image of how it may have looked.
Points of interest are numbered for easy reference and here’s the key:
1 – Parking Lot. A large area capable of holding some 48 automobiles and just a mere 637 feet from the front doors of the library.
2 – Memorial to the Almighty Penny. This 100% copper likeness is 70 feet in diameter and weighs 13 tons. (Made from the pennies left over after paying for the parking lot.)
3 – The Albert Paley sculpture named “Transgarbification”. The Paley Vision Courtyard that surrounds it holds nearly 16 tons of various scrap metals and is worth a cool $3.88.
4 – The Sacred Sears Building, now home to the Muscogee County School and Library Boards who hold regular but cloistered meetings in the women’s apparel department on the second floor.
5 – Columbus Whitewater Park. After breaching the dams on the Chattahoochee and opening it to kayakers, it was found that the pollution coming from Atlanta was causing visitors to exhibit unusual growths upon their bodies… such as extra eyes and a few fingers sprouting where hair used to grow. This new park feeds from Lindsey Creek.
6 – Macon Road Temple to the Divine Sales Tax… otherwise known as the Public Library.
posted by Redoubt at 10:12 AM
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