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Originally Posted by The Dutchman
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Clarify please...
I immigrated here in January, 1961. I left Rotterdam, NL and arrived in Hoboken by ocean liner. I was all of 4 years old. I still have fond memories of the journey. To me that ship is the last of her kind. Sort of like an old antique/thoroughbred race car. They literally don't make them like that anymore.
I assume you are trying to make a point here's your chance....
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The historic value of the ship has been well documented. Like your own feelings on it, I am allowed my own impression of it. It's been rotting away being a symbol of decay in Philadelphia for a generation. As the warehouses and neighborhoods around it have decayed at the same time. Always with the specter of 'some rich NYer is going to save it!'. Just like America as a whole, a ship being pulled in different directions by the benevolent rich and we're just at the whim of it set to gain nothing from it.
Where you see hope, I see a decay of a past I never knew.
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