Friday, December 09, 2005

GM's Corner : Little Boxes On the Hillside And They're All Made Out Of Ticky Tacky...

GM Roper starts out noting a blog post on urban sprawl, jumps back to a Pete Seeger song, edges into commentary on protest songs of the 1960s, and winds up noticing that the contemporary hard Left no longer has anything to do with classical Liberalism... And somehow ties it all together...

Of course, I'm a baby boomer and remember a lot of what he's talking about... ;-)

2 comments:

Bookworm said...

My parents loved the Ticky-Tacky song, and I grew up convinced (rightly or wrongly) that the song was written about the hideous subdivisions just south of San Francisco. I guess all lovely cities had their ticky-tacky houses crawling across the hillsides!

Kathryn Judson said...

Bookworm,

Somehow this makes me think of the last time we drove through Salt Lake City. Houses - huge ones, too much alike, painted very much alike - were devouring the hillsides, and the roadjams were awful. This was, admittedly, shortly before the Olympics, and the city was upside down trying to get ready (which explained some road closures and other road conjestion), but I couldn't help feel that SLC had gone from a rather pretty town to a rather ugly one, and one flirting with water shortages, too. Denver, I hear, is just as bad, if not worse.

At least most of the old subdivisions had the virtue of providing families with a chance to buy an affordable house. So many of them now are out of sight on price. Sigh. Ugly and expensive. This does not strike me as progress.