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Originally Posted by Table 5
bull. "Back in the day" things weren't as disposable and were built for the long-term, ensuring quality and durability. The time frame for buildings being used was hundreds of years, not decades.
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Fair enough. Didn't think of that.
But I still think we need to be more realistic.
Calgary is a boring, docile, business city that only now with more than a million residents is beginning to flesh-out culturally.
A 25 million dollar harp for King Kong resting over the Bow IS NOT culture. It doesn't represent what being Calgarian is. As much as I hate to admit it (because I am sick of cowboy everything), the Saddledome to me is a building that is iconic of our city because its clever. There is nothing clever about fruity bridges in what was originally a frontier town.
Five bridges that allow Calgarians to do stuff IS perpetuating culture.