Jackson Jambalaya

Where are Chowke's dope boys going to ply their trade?

David L Archie, a brutal tornado of a hands-on destructor, can manhandle that building to the ground, whilst screaming epithets that surpass mere blasphemy and biology.

Finally- but what about the hotel next door. Will both come down? Will the city file a lien against the remaining vacant property for the cost of demolition. Anywhere else the answer would be yes and yes. But this is Jackson!

Tickets should be sold; pieces of debris could be auctioned.

The entire Lumumba administration can be encapsulated by this one event-

Lumumba's sterling achievement. Name another.

But, where will the housing-challenged go now?

Fundraising idea: Make it into a giant outdoor smash-room event where people can pay a few bucks to go there and break sh*t...I mean "relieve frustrations".

A "built before 1960" hotel with NO detectable asbestos? It just can't be. It just can't!

What I see, is magnificent construction, dating from the apex of The American People. The reinforced concrete structure is still sound, as are most of the original windows and doors. The building has resisted six decades of fires, humidity, insects, shifting Yazoo Clay, INCOMPETENCE, and neglect. The quality of the engineering, the manufacturing processes, and the construction, are a marvel. A nation of honest, rational, industrious people produced the hotel, and ones nearly identical to it, from coast-to-coast (all FOUR coasts), of our once-magnificent nation.

Recently coming to light, following the reelection of our first great President since Eisenhower, is the true extent of the giant machine constructed for the purpose of destroying our nation. The multivalent strategies for shoveling incomprehensible amounts of money and legal support, to elements predictably prone to dishonesty, greed, and incompetence, are becoming clear.

This old Holiday Inn, is a victim of that America-destroying machine. It could have been repurposed, and should have been. Now, though, it lies within a city destroyed by that same machine. Hopefully, the system of Grant-grabbing, whereby projects with no hope of viability, are completed only for the harvesting of incentives, will be eliminated. Hopefully, unsound projects will no longer be subsidized, directly or indirectly, by government.

Hopefully, the site will return to being a windswept hilltop meadow. There is no need, in the shrinking city of Jackson, for ANYTHING NEW.

Since Ike? Oh, you're one of those who think Reagan and Rush were liberals.

Kingfish, I don't think in terms of 'Liberal' and 'Conservative'. To me, the 'Left Wing' and the 'Right Wing' are both appendages of the same big, evil bird. Donald may have to appease the Right Wing, in order to secure votes and thus save our civilization, but he's a TRUE patriot, and I suspect he's more of a Centrist.

For me, the true measure of his character, comes from an account (predating his first run for President) by a lady who owned a cottage in the Hamptons, which newly-wed Donald and Ivana rented for a summer. "They made substantial improvements, and left the place in far better condition than that in which they'd found it." This woman had been married to a famous Left Wing attorney, and thus was Donald's 'Class Enemy') yet STILL, she could find nothing bad to say about Trump. (the cottage was on a corner of a legendary property we almost bought, and I dug-deep, uncovering its history and vulnerabilities)

As for Regan, my thoughts about him can go no farther than NAFTA and 'The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986'.

“a haven for bums and criminals. “ if that’s the trigger for demolition, a lot of Jackson is gonna meet the wrecking ball soon.

11:26 - Hey "get off my lawn", you talk like you're choking on Geritol or a dick. You're re-using phrases in your attempt to sound monumental, but what I'm picturing instead is a set of thick glasses and the corner of a drooling, toothless mouth soaked with chaw-spit. Take your negativity and go plant some corn on the back 40 and leave dreams of revitalizing Jackson to the ones of us that are still here and haven't given up yet. That goes for the rest of you Madison-Rankin-ite, simpletons who have nothing to do but rant from behind a pane of fucking glass.

Thank you so much 1:00 for all that mouth imagery. As Auntie Mame would say, "How VIVID!" In real-life, are you 'Madame Hawk-Patoo', or whatever that saliva maven calls herself?

Kudos to you, too, for your self-DEHUMANIZING misuse of the word 'That', in, "...dreams of revitalizing Jackson to the ones of us THAT are still here and haven't given up yet..." (The word would normally be 'Who'. But I think that in this case, you've picked the right word.)

You certainly do know how to turn a phrase (to your own disadvantage).

@1126, I believe it was a Sheraton

1:23 - Not sure you got the point I was making. It's really easy to spout off critique about a city that you don't live in or are otherwise invested in. Apologies for only providing the misuse of one word for you to latch onto and exacerbate . Seems like my use of the word "simpleton" in your case was well received and appropriately applied.

Are you sure that was the original franchise? I used DuckDuckGo, which was its usual inadequate self. But their image search did reveal a vintage postcard pic of the Tupelo Holiday inn, from the same period. Doors & windows were identical to those of the motel under discussion, although the railing was more open (later changes in Code, probably necessitated retrofitting).