Post #227769 by Tipsy McStagger on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 8:39 PM

..by all means, continue to support it...I'm sure all of us do, when and if we get the chance to get out there....and yes, many buildings do get saved as architectural examples..i was a member of the society for commercial archeology for a few years back in the mid-late 90's (I reccommend anyone interested in preserving our roadside culture to get involved with it).....we saved alot of cool shit!! including some route 66 icons...and yet, there was plenty of cool stuff we watched go down in flames too for the same reasons -money and politics. unfortunately, trader's is not a stand-alone building, but part of the entire hotel itself and as such, is tougher to save...it would be like trying to save the palmer house traders by leveling the hotel and keeping the basement where it was located intact....the two are part of the same package and to save one, you must save the other...unfortunately saving an entire hotel is a tall order...especially when big bucks are involved. My point in the early post was simply that, it's important to recognize oblectively those battles that can be won and those that can't without fooling ourselves into thinking otherwise and spending alot of time and effort on a losing battle as opposed to applying that same energy to concrete things that we CAN accomplish and continue to preserve.....