This is from the welcome guide placed in hotel rooms throughout Asheville.
“In 1930, at the height of her Art Deco glory, the city of Asheville had borrowed so recklessly to provide great civic architecture, modern utilities and wide-ranging recreational services that when a single-bank went bust the whole wobbly machinery ground to a halt. The evil spell: sleep.”
The city didn’t recover until well into the 70s. But let’s not let history get in the way of repeating it.
