Graceland Cemetery's fences are getting that cool gothic Victorian look with the addition of decorative wrought-iron spikes on top of the brick walls. Seems the permanent inhabitants are being disturbed on a fairly regular basis by wannabe ghost hunters and metal and antiquities thieves. These fences look pretty forbidding for uninvited guests.
Well, that is not the only reason. It seems our Alderbeast -- the one who doesn't give a rip about gang shootings and unregistered sex offenders by schools & day cares, and countless unlicensed trucks in the surrounding neighborhood -- has been all over the Graceland Cemetery for having barbed wire on top of their own brick wall, even though the wall is over the 6 foot height limit that city ordinance 10-8-400 requires for such wire.
ReplyDeleteI guess Shiller wants to make the neighborhood safer for thieves and trespassers who break into the cemetery at night and for those who hop the fence to flee from police. She has her priorities, you know.
Actually, most of the walls around the entire cemetery, up to this point (especially the north and west walls) have been extremely easy to hop over, and did NOT have any barbed wire on top of it.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like this project has been taking a while (the poles went in over a month ago, I think, and not much has been done since) though I saw some dudes working on the east wall by the red line tracks the other day.
So, on the contrary, if it ever gets completed, it will be far more difficult to hop into the graveyard.
Barbed wire is un-aesthetic to say the least. The new stuff at least looks pretty while performing its main function.
ReplyDeleteI face the Montrose side of the 'great wall'....and the black iron is a vast improvement over the barbed wire.
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