What happened to the giant croquet mallet and ball idea?

Here’s what happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jFRLl-hWBg

Pass. Fix the roads, clean up the trash strewn about the city.

Question, Danforth does a lot to pie in the sky thinking but has anything ever become concrete?

The international rise of Washington Univ. and its medical center, the Danforth Plant Science Center, Washington Avenue’s streetscape renaissance, the Garden District project (remaking what formerly was McRee Town), Trailnet quickly come to mind. Concepts large, medium and small, all pretty pie in the sky, that the Danforth Foundation had a major hand in bringing to reality.

danforth has no “vision”. He’s an arrogant patrician who has a lot of dough and thinks he can take over public property for his own demented notions. Just look at the “danforth campus” at WU and you’ll get an idea what the danforths stand for architecturally and culturally.

It’s ironic [and more than a little sick] that not only the P-D Editorailroad Board but this blog especially supports danforth’s distorted values. this blog has chosen as its masthead an exhortation to “ALWAYS OPPOSE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AND PUBLIC PLUNDERERS”. Privileged classes and public plunderers—what an uncanny description of danforth in his assault on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. this blog apparently thinks putting a label at the top of the blog gives it class, and that its OK to then stand for the exact opposite of what it pretends to call for.

“museum of migration”—what crap.

If he’s looking for a place to improve the “culture” of slouisans and visitors, danforth might stretch his brain a bit and make a deal to purchase the sewer immediately north of the baseball stadium, thus also taking the cardinals off the hook and filling up that obscene eyesore. A true eyesore, right in the heart of the city, and in its most public location [yuck]. THEN let’s see how many locals and visitors find a museum of migration or some similar nothing a real draw [yuk yuk]. And leave the PUBLIC parks alone.

Jeeez, this blog is a danforth shill, nothing more. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot: roth has some “ideas” too on how danforth can ruin the riverfront park.

And leave the public parks alone.

Irv Eff,

I would call Danforth one of the “Privileged Classes” due to his wealth and power. Funny how the PD will oppose the privileged right up to the point where they want to pay for something.

Irv,

How exactly is writing a blog post questioning the viability of the centerpiece of Danforth’s plan equivalent to “shilling for Danforth?”

AJS - All roth was doing in this article was to “caution” a specific speculation about what to build in the park, not danforth’s relentless assult on the park itself. In fact, roth’s article is a total brownnose for danforth. And if you haven’t seen his prior articles on the riverfront park, they’re all or virtually all shilling for danforth to invade the park.

It’s not just this article. He uses this blog to continually shill for danforth to take over part of the PUBLIC land in the park from the National Park Service, our park protectors, and use his privileged status and filthy wealth to build what HE wants in OUR park—to clean up the “mess”, as that fool danforth has been quoted in this blog as having described the park [from his lofty office window overlooking the park---a window in one of the most vile buildings in the city].

And he does it under the phony masthead banner of righteousness, for a privileged snob and attempted public plunderer.