By Celebrities' Choice winner David SantiagoThe Texas Historical Commission and the San Antonio Conservation Society are worried that it might get what we’ve come to think of as the Pearl Treatment – a bittersweet process in which a formerly impressive monument is dwarfed by new construction – but most of us locals have grown indifferent to the Tower of the Americas' magnetism anyway. We’re like New Yorkers with an abstract Lady Liberty moldering offstage, attended only by wide-eyed strangers.
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