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Article #173Re: California dining advice needed.
From: Karen O'Mara
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:29
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:29
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"Simon Belmont" <123@abc.xyz> wrote in message news:<fbfUb.18856$GB7.4058@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com>... > > I've heard a number of recommendations here to visit Hearst Castle. > I always thought it was a tourist trap made even more tourist trappy > by Awnuld's state park fee hike. It's just a big estate right? Also, is > the estate's grandeur not attributed to its intent to bring in visitors? > There is nothing wrong with spectacles built to fit a purpose, but to > self-spectacularize for the sole purpose of being a spectacle is vain. > Maybe I'm totally off-base...I've never been there or experienced it. > Perhaps it represents/symbolizes some important historical element > I don't know about. I will not knock it until I try it, but my casual > observation tells me not to value its "importance" all too heavily. The Winchester Mystery House is 'tourist trappy.' Hearst Castle is more interesting. That guy, Hearst, was really something else... Karen
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