Smashburger Transports Me Back to Cali...
I love documentaries, in fact the bulk of what I watch these days are documentaries. I got rid of Direct TV over a year ago and now I stream Netflix, via Roku. They have an impressive array of documentaries and one of the most well done, thought provoking docs I have watched recently is "The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe." This documentary details the Pruitt-Igoe housing project that was first occupied in 1954 and the first building demolished in 1972 and the final demolished in 1976. Pruitt-Igoe is considered by many to be a textbook example of urban decay and the failure of the government's housing project program. If you get the chance please watch this documentary, I feel it is a very important social commentary that not only presents the housing projects but also introduces the viewers to some amazing people who lived there as children and, as adults, give some pretty heart-felt testimonials to what it was like to live inside of Pruitt-Igoe. Some blame the archit
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