Friday, December 2, 2005

Mall Resurrects Katrina Christmas Display

HURRICANES/TROPICAL STORMS
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Marcia Smith looks at a Christmas display of homes with blue tarps and debris at Lakeside Mall in Metairie, La., Monday Nov. 28, 2005. Frank Evans thought the tiny blue-tarped roofs, little toppled fences and miniature piles of hurricane debris he included in the Christmas display he builds every year for a suburban New Orleans shopping mall struck just the right humorous tone. Mall management decided otherwise and told Evans, a landscape architect from nearby Gretna, to dismantle it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Toy workers remove hurricane debris in front of a model home with blue tarps in a Christmas display at Lakeside Mall in Metairie, La., Monday Nov. 28, 2005. Frank Evans thought the tiny blue-tarped roofs, little toppled fences and miniature piles of hurricane debris he included in the Christmas display he builds every year for a suburban New Orleans shopping mall struck just the right humorous tone. Mall management decided otherwise and told Evans, a landscape architect from nearby Gretna, to dismantle it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Chuck Burton / Associated Press Lakeside Mall management told Frank Evans to dismantle a Katrina-themed Christmas display.NEWSLINE
"It's like putting Christmas lights up on your FEMA trailer. It just makes you feel better."

NEWSBYTE
Mall Resurrects Display of Hurricane Town
METAIRIE, La. (AP) - The outcry was so intense after a suburban New Orleans mall removed a Christmas display of a miniature hurricane-ravaged town that the exhibit is going back up this weekend.

Frank Evans, who designed the tiny blue-tarped roofs and little toppled fences, said he was reinstalling them at the mall's request starting Friday night. Read full story.

TENSION: Applied to the blue tarps
GRAVITY: Damp and dank

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