Recycling We Don't Like: Stealing History in New Orleans
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12.15.05
Cypress mantles. Period doors. Baseboards. Victorian shutters. It appears that architectural vandals are stripping houses to the bone in still-evacuated New Orleans. "They're going to mine our city and send it all to Southern California." There is no-one to stop it- "Not even the cops know this stuff's valuable -- they all live out in the suburbs." Read about high-end looting in the ::Wall Street Journal
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There are a lot of groups here in New Orleans trying to stop this sort of thing. Also, quite a few of us have taken to patrolling our neighborhoods to keep "architectural looters" out. Thank you for helping to raise awareness of this issue.
-Gwyndyn Alexander