--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Allan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for the post. It is good to see some comon sense posted here. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/25/2006 12:39:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Tommy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to me: > "Hi Mario!...I know you keep close track of AP and I always respect your opinions. I wanted to know what you thought of my column this week. I've attached it in case you haven't seen it. > You can post it anywhere if you wish, because I know you go on a few different Asbury message boards. > Let me know what you think." > > Brief background: Tommy and I are ideological opposites, and I've written to triCity a few times criticizing his columns as being textbook examples of Rove-Rush Ad Hominem Arguments: "Poisoning the Well and Other Personal Attacks." (e.g., "I once asked a long- haired maggot-infested FM-type environmentalist wacko who he thought was threatening the owl.") > > For those who've complained they can't access triCity News in print or the column from the file section of this group, here is the complete text: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- > Justified Right > The Conservative Alternative to triCity by Tommy DeSeno > > Baronet: The 6th Best Theater In Asbury Park > > Many people have delusions of grandeur, but you are deluded by triviality. Eugene Ionesco > > Theyâre baaaaaaaaaack! After an all too brief absence, the âNostalgia Naziâ are at it again in Asbury Park. âNostalgia Naziâ are those people who, while arriving in Asbury Park too recently to have experienced it years ago, somehow claim to have a longing for things they never saw in the first place. Nostalgia Nazi have only read about Asbury Parkâs better days, causing them to mythologize the City. In their minds, everything in Asbury Park was far more glorious than in reality it ever actually was. Donât get me wrong--Asbury Park had an enchanting past, but it was certainly not the Shangri-La that these people think it was. > > Due to their phony yearning for a past they never had, Nostalgia Nazi have made the mistake of trying to save buildings in Asbury Park that really should be bulldozer meat. Those are the good ones. The rest are people who hate Asbury Parkâs Beachfront Redevelopment and will pretend to be âPreservationistsâ or âHistorical Society Membersâ if it affords them opportunity to halt Beachfront progress. > > One problem I have with these people is their willingness to care more about old buildings in Asbury than old people in Asbury. > > Are there worthwhile Eminent Domain issues they could get behind? Sure, but they lack the priorities to see them. They should be more âpeople orientedâ and care about the business folks who rode out the 30-year storm here instead of caring for empty buildings. Here are some things Iâve never seen from these supposedly caring people: Iâve never seen a picket sign saying, âSave the Kary and Gokberk homesâ (they are people raising 4th generation Asbury Parkers in their homes). Iâve never seen a rally to make sure Stanley Tokic, owner of the Adriatic Restaurant for more than 20 years, gets a prime spot in the Redevelopment. Iâve never seen a website to raise awareness that Rita Morano of Ritaâs Deli, operating for a several decades here, should also get her pick of locations in the Redevelopment zone. > > But nooooooooo! The unholy alliance of Asbury Newbies and Meddling Outsiders that comprise this army of âPreservationistsâ have brought us to this level of hell: âSave Tillieâ and âSave the Stone Pony.â Tillie was the beneficiary of websites, fundraisers and endless Asbury Park Press âdreaditorials,â all to save an ugly cartoon void of artistic worth. Save the Stone Pony? Even the European press acted like there is a constitutional right for college kids to puke on the sidewalk after dollar beer night. Good Grief. > > Think of what they would do to the aesthetic of this City if they had their way. We would have no class whatsoever--a bunch of Tillie faces and more puke bars with rallies to save the old Lyric porno palace (thankfully they lost that fight). They should raise money to help Frank DâAlessandro restore Stephen Craneâs home-- the most historically significant building in the City. That of course would take a level of sophistication far beyond the puny minds of Tillie-lovers. > > Yes, there is Eminent Domain going on in Asbury Park. No, it isnât the travesty that is going on in Long Branch, because Asbury fits into the pre-Kelo state of the law, and Eminent Domain was needed here. Oh and yes--I did accept Councilman Keadyâs challenge to debate me on Asbury Radio, and no, it wonât happen, because the host of that show is too protective of Keady to let me have at him. > > Now the Nostalgia Nazi are at it again. This time it is âSave the Baronet Theater!â --which was once the 6th best theater in Asbury Park. Years ago Asbury Park had the Mayfair Theater, of glorious baroque architecture. It was knocked down but should have been saved. Today, new people want to complete the cycle of lunacy by saving a theater that should be knocked down. > > A word about Pat Fasano, who bought the Baronet 3.5 years AFTER he knew it became subject to Eminent Domain. Pat is an Asbury Park hero. Unlike others, he has proven that when he starts a project, he finishes it. Compare him to Sackman who owns Steinbachâs, the old Bank Building and Press Complex (all in a row). I walk past these gargantuan projects and hear one lousy hammer swinging, when I should hear 100. That hammer is drowned out by the sound of the real estate market crashing down around us. Fasano would never let that happen. He gets the job done. > > The question is: What âjobâ does he want to get done with the Baronet? Save it? Yea right. What, is Pat now Walter Reade all of a sudden? Heâs in the movie business? No, Pat builds condominiums for a living. He brags of offering Asbury Partners $10 million for the Redevelopment rights to half the block. Does anyone really think he will try to make his money back selling $2 movie tickets on the weekends? Please. Weâve seen this act before. Whatâs that old saying--âFool me once call meâ¦Dominic Santana? â The Nostalgia Nazi are just too stupid to see it--again. > > By the way, Fasano should be granted the sub-developer rights for Fourth Avenue by Asbury Partners to build condos. Patâs earned it for all heâs done here. > > I laugh when I hear people talk about the Baronet like it was Mannâs Chinese Theater or something. Like the Palace before it, itâs a lousy cinder-block box that probably took a week and half to build. Nothing of importance happened there, and there is no record of anyone important performing there. My own memories of the place is Kung Fu movies on Saturday afternoons. The only redeeming value about that is after the movie I could use the Kung Fu on the creeps waiting outside the joint who tried to jump me for my money. This is the heritage that these people are trying to save, and they donât know it. > > The histrionics over what was once âthe 6th best movie theater in Asbury Parkâ is holding up redevelopment, and I hate that. The vote to take this place has been postponed twice. Mayor Sanders, Deputy Mayor Bruno and Councilman Loffredo are losing focus by entertaining this B.S. for too long. > > The latest stall occurred when Asbury Partnerâs sent a letter to the Council assuring all that when they do take the Baronet, they will continue to operate the theater for a time, so nothing is lost. Ok, there are two things wrong with that. > > First, it is 100% ILLEGAL for them to operate the theater after using Eminent Domain to take it. The spirit of Eminent Domain law is you only take and pay for the real estate, and you must help the business set up elsewhere. Asbury Partners cannot step into the theater ownerâs shoes and assume the benefit of all the prior advertising and good will to continue another manâs business. If that can happen, then letâs just give the Iraqisâ our Constitution; apparently we arenât using it anymore. > > Second, although Iâm a fan of Larry and Glenn Fishman too, they have the theater credentials of Bialystock and Bloom -- none. When they took over the Paramount Theater, operating there was Asbury Parkâs own Premiere Theater Company, doing wonderful shows. I donât claim to know whose fault it was that negotiations to continue the shows there broke down, but Iâm a âresults- orientedâ judge of matters, and the result was that our Theater Company moved to Lincroft. > > The bottom line is, for all this silly talk by silly people about saving the ugly old Baronet, neither Fishman nor Fasano will save it. Itâs gone in favor of condos no matter what (as it should be). Stop holding up our agreed upon, court tested redevelopment plan and get this City back on track. > > By the way, there is nothing stopping all these supposed lovers of the Arts from building a new theater is Asbury Park. That of course would involve the use of their own money, so donât count on it. Activists only fight to spend OPM--other peopleâs money. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- > > > "Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves." -John Le Carré > > Mario > > See Tillie Saved here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggstrHUmAhM > See ad for Palace Amusements: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=buLTxQuam_c > > Sunset > > > > Thanks for the Video, enjoyed watching it.
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