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– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Veneer and plaque installed, left; in progress, right
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Quincy Center undergoing a mad rush to be dressed up in time for an intertwined pair of photo ops masquerading as twentieth anniversary September 11 dedications.
On the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch is planning to dedicate a new bridge over MBTA tracks that connects Burgin Parkway from roughly the site of the now-former Commonwealth Restaurant to basically little more than alleyway access to a parking garage opposite The Fours restaurant.
The needle and the damage done
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That and also dedicating an adjacent as well as another koched-up up to the max park that is likely to become a busy outdoor illegal substance apothecary within the footprint of the former Ross parking garage.
Disconnect on the tragedy that was 9/11 as well as how the United States just completed a various problematic evacuation from Afghanistan notwithstanding, Quincy Mayor Koch never shies away from wrapping himself in the flag via a gala event, especially one featuring him.
So what, apparently, for the fact that something somber would be a far more appropriate way to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of what is to date still the most horrific single day inflicting of terrorism upon defenseless civilians within the United States rather than foisting what is ultimately but a photo op for Mayor Koch’s latest Edifice Complex.
Head covered out of shame?
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Efforts undertaken included pressing hard to see the reportedly at least $10 million spent on koched-up landscaping finally completed after the original spring completion and dedications date were delayed given claims of COVID-induced delays even if one cannot help but suspect the usual problems with project management by the Koch Maladministration.
Major efforts include setting in place various monuments to the various generals with ties to Quincy.
In turn, these latest bronze pieces of sure to again be banal statuary will up Mayor Koch’s installations of military statuary to fourteen out of fifteen pieces of outdoor statuary commissioned by him one way or another and then installed per Quincy Quarry’s unofficial count.
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At the same time, still no official word as to what Mayor Koch plans to do with the long MIA but still beloved as well as actually engaging statues of John Adams and Abigail Adams with a young John Quincy.
That and put into operation the apparently de rigueur water fountain for most any and all koched-up new parks in Quincy in recent years.
Specific examples include the curious tasking of suspected Kim Jong Koch Plaza Snow Team Six members to inexplicably sand off the factory finish of tropical hardwood used on upwards of a hundred feet or so of bench seating and then applying some sort of oil finish.
Sanding, sanded, and oiled (left); sanding away (center); and, sanded and forgotten (right)? Click on image to see better images
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Forgot to oil after sanding?
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Missed, however, was oiling up one of the benches among upwards of a hundred feet or thereabouts of bench in total that inexplicably had its fresh from the factory finish sanded down to raw wood.
At least until at least one of the designated Koch Machine followers of Quincy Quarry reads this latest Quincy Quarry exposé, that is, and then passes word along to a capo so that a fix might then be endeavored.
Also over the top obsessive is the repainting of nearby and “relatively” new black traffic light poles and bollards as such items were painted with especially heavy-duty long-lived paint.
Painting already powder painted poles
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That and one can only properly wonder about the life expectancy of the new paint as there were no signs of any prep work, let alone a mere cleaning of the surface to be painted.
Then again, this is far from the first time that in the rush to fake things in Quincy Center – or most anywhere in Quincy for that matter – that things ended up koched-up as well as ultimately at taxpayers’ expense.
The new Generals Bridge creates two additional intersections — traffic choke points — in the already snarled and scrambled Quincy Center mess.
Maybe the mayor will melt down the statue of Abigail and young John and have it recast into an image of himself. I almost hate to mention such a thing — he may actually like the idea and attempt to do it. Would he then suggest that people passing-by should bow down to it?
No. He won’t do that silly pants. He loves history to much to do that.
Er, ah — do you call what he did with the old memorial bricks in front of City Hall?
He doesn’t need a statue for you to bow down to him. How many pairs of knee pads do you go through in a year?
It was only a matter of time before you came back to post your inane suck-up comments — you’re hooked like a fish.
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Actually, two more koched-up traffic points in the Q — but point taken.
On the other hand, don’t worry about Abigail & John Quincy ending up so recycled — nowhere near enough bronze. Perhaps sold for scrap, however …
Is not one of these generals still alive? I guess it won’t be long before the mayor commissions his own bust,
Peter,
Actually, all three generals who are to be honored with life-sized statutes are still alive and all of which were fashioned by a Soviet émigré who now mostly lives in Italy. Traditional practice is to wait until someone who served dies to so be honored unless the person is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner or perhaps was an early astronaut, but our peerless mayor loves to score photo ops. Not sure yet how many of those to be honored with merely busts or plaques might still be alive, however.
I think it’s nice to honor someone before they die. Especially when that person is someone who served in the armed forces. Surely you agree with that.
Quincy Quarry endorses the sentiments of those who have serviced with distinction that it is — well — unseemly to so honored while they are still alive.
Well why don’t you just throw a party for them.
Isn’t it about time to rerererepave Hancock St. . . . again?
#Cobblestone2022
Fred,
Soon enough; however, first the Koch Maladministration has to finish up rererepaving surface parking opposite the Stop & Shop headquarters where the Ross Garage used to be. Per various credible sources, it appears that FoxRock’s plans for building a medical offices building in that end of the currently vacant land are still at least on hold.
Well, maybe, but it’s already been a couple weeks . . .
Fred,
No argument — the white knuckle jonesing has to be raging something fierce.