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Usually in California…

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@MuseZack @WeCanShootToo re: Fisher, good comparison is the Broad in LA. Similar collections. Broad spent more time (and money) getting his museum built. Fisher proposed a massive museum in the Presidio two years before he died, after the Lucas debacle, when the difficulty was already clear

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@MuseZack @WeCanShootToo the difference is why "SF didn't want his museum" isn't accurate - one park is federal, one is city. A federal board controls Presidio. Lucas could have bought the lot where they built Chase Center and put it there. As with Chicago, he wanted it on public land.

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@MuseZack @WeCanShootToo which is in a national park (store was there before it was a national park). they requested changes and he was set on his retro architecture (ultimately he wasn't). city offered him Treasure Island, he didn't want it. similar story with Fishers.
https://t.co/n57OSswGJ1

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@Ahsha_Safai this is not what happened. he wanted it in the Presidio, a national park, he was inflexible about their requirements. he was offered alternatives (Treasure Island) and didn't want them.
https://t.co/hyxHktsFVe

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@WeCanShootToo narrative that “SF turned it down” is false, his first choice was in a national park and he didn’t want the alternatives

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@WeCanShootToo there's one in Long Beach (supposedly the largest mural in the world) and they are facing the same issue, very expensive to re-create

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@zachklein there should be several free and easy dumpsters where people can take stuff in the city (vs drive south to recology and pay $65). would cut down on a % of this behavior and be cheaper in terms of less clean up time.

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@LeBuzzdilyacin1 @lionel_trolling read this still / ending as offering a sliver of redemption, after hitting rock bottom of decadence. the girl is a reminder that innocence still exists, even if he can’t reach it or hear it.

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@WeCanShootToo !

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@Paul_Bowers @lionel_trolling one of the best stamp designs in decades, used my last one to send in a tax payment and it hurt

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@PaulSkallas this doesn’t hold up for Philly - “expensive” map shows 250-450k condos and 7 miles away in the “bad” area there’s 250-400k houses

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@jbarro @NateSilver538 @TheStalwart you can get all the same produce on the east coast … it’s just 6 days older

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@WeCanShootToo at first glance I can imagine some hipster adopting a “so bad it’s good” version of this

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@ExileGrimm NF should have put Errol Morris on the LA mag story from a few years ago with the compelling Zodiac lead

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@nickyotissmith that scene between Pesci and Damon has come to mind over the past year

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@WeCanShootToo @conor64 people put up with the negatives of san francisco to be somewhere interesting and a group of them decided "let's build a new boring town 100 miles away in a field"

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@WeCanShootToo @mattyglesias that one is like a shameless capitol records tower rip off, like no one would notice 30 miles south

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@WeCanShootToo @mattyglesias tbf the building with the teal roof is circa 1928 and was once the tallest building west of the Mississippi, until LA city hall was built

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@WeCanShootToo @mattyglesias and it turns out LBC has slightly more people than Miami?

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@WeCanShootToo @mattyglesias Long Beach, California