Despite the prevailing rule in many historic cities -- that is, the more treasured the building, the more likely it is to be torn from its urban fabric -- Philadelphia has preserved much of its past without roping it off.
A man in a black overall is mopping the floor of the central aisle and has roped it off at either end.
Over the coming days, we bought bodyboards and wetsuits and beachballs and an inflatable boat, and when we arrived in a new corner of France I would find myself roping it off with washing line and hanging bone dry towels on it to block the views of passersby and show – what?
Police have since cleared the area, roping it off, and have set up an information checkpoint for family members looking for loved ones.
In both stories, the possessor of the rope sells it off piece by piece until nothing is left.
The visitors had América on the ropes but did not finish it off.
Additionally, some monuments limit physical access, as English Heritage did when it roped off the stone circle at Stonehenge.
Find the boat and get the rope dangling off it.
