Marc Frijlink <bluestr@worldonline.nl> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997
I just read that you want to tear down a place that should be regarded as a national monument. Why? Why do some counties just destroy their cultural heritage. The USA has a far younger culture than we have in the Netherlands. So what is the use of taking it down. Shouldn't you be more careful and preserve something like Maxwell Street? I think you should and anyone out there with a little knowledge of YOUR culture should agree with me.
Next to destroying your own culture you also take away the opportunity for the "younger" generation (like me) to see the famous places of the blues. Just imagine someone dumping sand in the canals of Amsterdam so it can be turned into a parking space..... or the pyramids in Egypt, you wouldn't turn them over in a hamburger joint.
Anyway I hope that you will see that the idea of destroying Maxwell Street is not one of the best you came up with so far and that you will do everything you can to help to save a monument of the blues.
From the Netherlands I wish you all the best.
Marc Frijlink
(Blues DJ from Radio Meppel, the Netherlands)
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