Notepad2 and lots of typing http://www.descope.com/index.html DeScope is a Cranky Journal of Themed Design and Development. Duh. MON, August 25, 2008 13:00:01 PDT en e.eddy.edwards@descope.com DeScope Partners, LLP, 2008 http://www.descope.com/images/rss/rsslogo.gif http://www.descope.com/index.html 100 75 http://www.descope.com/index.html August 25, 2008: I don't dislike condos. I don't dislike people who are condo-dwellers. That said, I'd like to know why do condos have it in for amusement parks? OK, they don't, but condo developers sure seems to. Parks lost to condos include: Whalon Park (Lunenburg, MA), Freedomland U.S.A. (The Bronx, NY), Astroworld (Houston, TX -- condo-fication pending), Six Flags Magic Mountain (Valencia, CA -- on hold . . . for now) And many more, more than likely (but digging through the list of dead parks on Wikipedia is, like, way bumming me out. In all unearned fairness to condo developers, it's not, really, that they set out to destroy amusement parks for the same of a place to build layer upon layer of 30 year mortgage apartments, but, like with the still-more vulnerable landed ozoners — drive-in theatres — amusement parks tend to be great tracks of freeway-close land more valuable for stacked housing development than their current lowly (i.e. "entertainment") uses can pay. Sic transit gloria places to go to have fun, drink over-priced fountain drinks, `n perhaps cop a feel come a Saturday night. (More . . .)