Decatur, AL – From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It’s one big swastika.
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Retirement home tries a second renovation to rid itself of swastika shape
This aerial photograph shows the Wesley Acres retirement home in Decatur, Ala. Prompted by complaints from a Jewish activist, the agency that owns the government-funded building is planning to alter its shape to disguise the Nazi symbol. ..
Prompted by complaints from a Jewish activist, the agency that owns the government-funded building is planning to alter its shape to disguise the Nazi symbol. The move comes just a few years after a $1 million design modification meant to quiet similar complaints from a U.S. senator.
“The difficulty is there are a limited number of options for fixing a building that has been there for some time,” said Mike Giles, counsel for the Methodist Homes Corp. of Alabama and Northwest Florida. “We have to come up with a way to fix an appearance that we want solved and not hurt our residents.”
Wesley Acres provides government-subsidized housing for 117 low-income people ages 62 and above. Most have no reason to suspect their hallways take on a sinister shape. [AP]
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Oy Vey! life is so hard! We have Military bases, Nursing homes and Library desks to worry about. There is one other location. [where you don’t have to take an airplane, to think that you see the outline of a swastika] The BAM building (Brooklyn Academy of Music) in downtown Brooklyn. On the outside of the sidewall facing the entrance. As part of the [original] design of the building.