"Battered Galveston is ready to rebuild; City recovered from storms in the past" by Allen G. Breed, Associated Press | September 21, 2008
(Blog author just exhaling in disgust at the MSM and its cover-up lies; I'm so sick of them. They haven't even rebuilt from Katrina yet, and I get this shit scitte shovel about Ike? Yeah, this country wasn't destroyed by George Bush -- if you read the Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, garbage MSM!)
GALVESTON, Texas - From the '30s to the '50s, one writer observed, Galveston was "every bit as thoroughly controlled by the Mob as Atlantic City." Much of that alleged activity revolved around the famed Balinese Room, a nightclub and casino that hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and the Marx Brothers.
Oh, so Frank, Bob, Jack, and the Marx Brothers were wined and dined by organized crime, huh?
The Balinese Room didn't survive Ike. A couple of years ago, the city hired a marketing firm to help improve Galveston's image. In interviews, tourists, and even locals repeatedly cited "dirty beaches" and the town's "unclean feel."
The firm's report advised: "Flaunt the uniqueness of your island. Your beaches and island are not dirty - they are colored with stories, history, and culture."
Ann Leocadi has fond memories of coming to Galveston as a child from Houston and staying at the old Jack Tar Motel, a working-class getaway on Seawall Boulevard, where her family enjoyed the swimming pool and beach, then ate at Gaido's, a popular seafood restaurant.
"Growing up, that's what I liked," says Leocadi, a prison social worker who now lives within sight of her old playground.
This March, the 15-story tower Emerald by the Sea - with green-tinted windows and unit prices ranging from $375,000 to $1.5 million - opened where Jack Tar once stood, and survived Ike almost unscathed.
The world is an oyster if you are a stink elite richer!!!
Galveston was slow to follow its Gulf Coast neighbors in embracing the high-rise luxury condominium boom, but it's making up for lost time. "It's inevitable," Jim Gaines, research economist for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, told the local newspaper. "You can see it coming."
The well-off and the poor coexist in Galveston, which has a poverty rate of 22 percent, just behind that of New Orleans. Shotgun shacks and million-dollar beach homes felt Ike's wrath.
Residents have been told that it may be months before power and other services are restored, and Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas has asked those who stayed behind to leave the city. But she is eager for the world to know that Galveston's future is secure.
Yeah, HIDE THAT in the BACK-END of the piece, MSM -- while you back-end it to us!!!! Sigh!
"The city of Galveston is not in ruins," she said. "It is recovering according to a well-established plan."
I'm really sick and tired of government liars!!!
