PHILADELPHIA | S.S. United States | 53,330 GRT | 990 FT (Redevelopment)

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000

depressed? weird class issue? I could care less if it's sunk or restored and was just explaining to you what a life time of seeing it has meant to me (and many other people in Philly for that matter). People can't wait to see it leave for good.

"oh cool, it's going to be an attraction for some other city's economy! Glad we let it be a giant symbol of blight and decay for Philadelphia!"

One last kick in the balls.

I think you might be the only one who can't wait to see it leave. It's bizarre.

[3rd&Brown]

Originally Posted by Redddog

I think you might be the only one who can't wait to see it leave. It's bizarre.

I could care less about it and am also sorta tired of looking at it, tbh. I just don't talk about it because it's not my passion but I don't want to yuck anyone else's yum. I will say this, however...if the city somehow were to kick in any money at all to save the thing it would be a gross misappropriation of funds.

I'd rather see a bustling port in that area with thousands of containers stacked up and have a subway extension on Roosevelt Boulevard. And all of our neighborhood rec centers revived.

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

I could care less about it and am also sorta tired of looking at it, tbh. I just don't talk about it because it's not my passion but I don't want to yuck anyone else's yum. I will say this, however...if the city somehow were to kick in any money at all to save the thing it would be a gross misappropriation of funds.

I'd rather see a bustling port in that area with thousands of containers stacked up and have a subway extension on Roosevelt Boulevard. And all of our neighborhood rec centers revived.

Agreed. It should be private investment, which is the problem. It would be prohibitively expensive to restore that thing. It would have to be some ridiculously rich person's passion project. I just don't get the hate for it.

[PHL10]

Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000

"oh cool, it's going to be an attraction for some other city's economy! Glad we let it be a giant symbol of blight and decay for Philadelphia!"

I never considered it blight and I never considered that some would - but that does makes sense. I thought it looked badass personally.

[TempleGuy1000]

Originally Posted by PHL10

I never considered it blight and I never considered that some would - but that does makes sense. I thought it looked badass personally.

I would feel different if it wasn't about to sail out of Philadelphia in a few weeks to never return. It doesn't really matter if it's a reef or a museum, there's going to be little to no mention there was ever any affiliation with Philly.

I saw someone online say "it's like if someone came and parked their nice car in front of your house, and decided to leave it to rust up for the next 3 decades". I don't mean to overly negative (too late lol), but I can just imagine how many parents over the years have come to Philly to drop their kids off at college and they visit IKEA, sit in the cafeteria, and munch down on a meatball staring out the window thinking "maybe Philly is just a big junk yard" haha..

[Justin7]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

yuck anyone else's yum

Are mods really going to allow this type of language?

[Busy Bee]

[Daario]

Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000

I would feel different if it wasn't about to sail out of Philadelphia in a few weeks to never return. It doesn't really matter if it's a reef or a museum, there's going to be little to no mention there was ever any affiliation with Philly.

I saw someone online say "it's like if someone came and parked their nice car in front of your house, and decided to leave it to rust up for the next 3 decades". I don't mean to overly negative (too late lol), but I can just imagine how many parents over the years have come to Philly to drop their kids off at college and they visit IKEA, sit in the cafeteria, and munch down on a meatball staring out the window thinking "maybe Philly is just a big junk yard" haha..

As someone who grew up here in the city (West Philly & Germantown) and went to that IKEA several times as a child, I can assure you that most people don't think that. We always referred to it as Philly's Titanic, and wished that we could go on board and check it out. It's just such an interesting oddity, and shows that Philly is full of them.

[PHL10]

Short clip from Action News (pretty cool):

Action News archive: Does the SS United States fit under Philadelphia's Walt Whitman Bridge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeAkNVASyeI

[Busy Bee]

^Nice

[TK2001]

https://www-fox10tv-com.cdn.ampproje...more-delays%2F

[Groundhog]

The SS United States still sits in the Atlantic Ocean in Philadelphia waiting for the day it gets pulled by tugboats to Mobile.

Geography, not her strong suit.

[TK2001]

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...ss-next-steps/

[Busy Bee]

It's a metaphor.

[Crawford]

This is so depressing.

Isn't there some rich dude who could buy this as a hobby? Like those SNL guys who bought an old SI ferry?

[Busy Bee]

Yeah, it's a tragedy.

It would be a very very tough pill to swallow, but if some tech villain billionaire, recognizing its symbolic importance after hearing this story, stepped in at the last minute and saved this thing... I'd have to admit I'd welcome it.

[Mr Saturn64]

Departure Saturday at 4:30 AM

[reparcsyks]

Eagles should've ridden the boat to NOLA - lol.

[Busy Bee]

met·a·phor
/ˈmedəˌfôr/
noun

noun: metaphor; plural noun: metaphors

a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
"the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering"

[Busy Bee]

When your country is committing suicide before you're very eyes it's more difficult to give this the attention it deserves, but the ending to this saga is incredibly sad.