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Anyways I'm sure the new Escape from New York will be all computer generated so we won't have to worry about what town it'll be filmed in.

I hope they film it in Detroit.... maybe that will keep us out of the #1 spot on the "most dangerous" list....

They began renovation on the Pick-Fort Shelby Hotel. It's right next to the Statler that was destroyed a few years ago.



Last August they cut down the trees that were growing on the roof and now the renovation has started.



The article I read said 3 other buildings have trees on the roof. One is under renovation and another two belong to owners who are notoriously slow in renovating (sounds familiar) even when faced with fines for not meeting deadlines.

TheWayoftheArch wrote:

throatybeard wrote:

TheWayoftheArch wrote:OT, but:



I actually got into an argument witha Cairo native about the "correct" pronunciation of the name.



My Argument: "Its Cairo, named after the Egyptian city, just like Memphis to your South. Both were one time capitals of the empire. You even took the Cairo's motto 'Jewel of the Nile' and made it "Jewel of the Mississippi."



Him "Egypt? Hell, thats fine for them. Here its 'Kay-Row'. Ask anybody."



Me: "You mean like the corn syrup?"



Him: "Yeah, just like that. Karo."



Me: "Wow." (Shakes head, turns full attention to beverage, checks time, hopes high speed rail picks him up and takes him away from conversation.)



[Fade to Black]



Natural selection leaves some behind.

That's an unbelievably stuck-up attitude.

Him or me?

You. You have to ask? Jesus.

RFT - How a 1976 St. Louis Fire Gave 'Escape From New York' Its Setting

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/artsblo ... ts-setting

Stltoday - The 1976 Heyday fire along Locust Street was one for the ages

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met ... 06e49.html

^^ That TheWayoftheArch conversation from 2008 was freaking halirious.

OnTheEdge wrote: ↑

Sep 16, 2021

^^ That TheWayoftheArch conversation from 2008 was freaking halirious.

I'll say the same thing I say about pronunciations of historically French words and names in St. Louis: 21st Century Parisians don't dictate the pronunciation something 4,300 miles away, whose name likely goes back over 200 years.

aprice wrote: ↑

Sep 17, 2021

OnTheEdge wrote: ↑

Sep 16, 2021

^^ That TheWayoftheArch conversation from 2008 was freaking halirious.

I'll say the same thing I say about pronunciations of historically French words and names in St. Louis: 21st Century Parisians don't dictate the pronunciation something 4,300 miles away, whose name likely goes back over 200 years.

That criticism (almost always from transplants) always made me kinda annoyed and I came to the same conclusion as you. Oh, not pronouncing colonial French names from the 16-1700's like a modern Parisian makes us uncultured? Making that critique is more of a self-own than anything.

^I thought Parisians just started on fire to begin with. Maybe that's what gives the city all its light. The truth of the matter, in the end, is that France is not in the Americas. (Nor are England or Spain, for that matter.) I have a vague recollection that English and Spanish have drifted in similar directions from their counterparts in the eastern hemisphere. Which makes a certain amount of sense as both were exposed to an at least somewhat similar mix of non-European tongues once they got here. Perhaps the same is true of French? Give me some good colonial French. And maybe, if they're nice, we can let our French friends visit. (I'll gladly talk up the virtues of French baking. Or cheesemaking. Or music, for that matter.) Viva la Saint Louis! Viva la France! I'll get back to you on Paris.