Tourists from around the country descend on San Antonio to snap pictures of the famed Alamo, which looks pretty much as it must have looked in Texas’s pre-statehood days, with one big exception: the curb in front of the historic battle site and running the length of the building has been painted a garish orange, as an accident-prevention measure. TV station KSAT has a video clip of the controversy, and one local man’s efforts to get the decision reversed (“Bright Orange Curb Welcomes Visitors To the Alamo“).
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Your post caused me to think of the benefits of painting damn near everything around the Bush White House “garish orange” as a stupidity-prevention measure.
“…the famed Alamo, which looks pretty much as it must have looked in Texas’s pre-statehood days…”
Except for the flagpole, the carefully manicured lawn, the steel posts and chains to keep people on the sidewalks, the sidewalks themselves, the street out front, the signs, the big plaque, the guards, the buildings in the background, and everything else that wasn’t there in Texas’s pre-statehood days. Let’s not kid ourselves here, going to the Alamo isn’t a trip through time.
As a native Texan, I can assure you that, like everywhere, Texas has its fair share of people with nothing better to worry about than whether or not a curb is painted orange.
And, believe it or not, you can take a photo of the Alamo without getting the curb in the frame, just like you can take a photo without getting traffic in the frame.
This report is nothing more than a time-suck for a local news station.
+1 to what Seth said.
Of course, if a lawsuit results from this, then it’s a perfect xample of somthing that goes on this site.
More likely the orange paint results from a lawsuit somewhere and an overly zealous “civil servant” wanting to prevent same from happening on his watch.