...No, Lady Charleston, keep your individuality, save your fine old houses from decay. Keep your pride in the past.
Look down your aquiline nose at us tourists; we don't mind, it's a part of your act. Be as old
fashioned as you please with your Blue Danube Waltz, your three o'clock dinner hour and your flower ladies.
And we like your love of privacy as expressed by the houses standing endwise to the street and those high walls and iron
gateways. How little privacy there is to most American homes! You are not the only town
with its own architecture and its memories of a heroic past, but you are one of those with the
strongest individual character in a nation standardized to boredom.
Keep that individuality, dear Charleston, for that is your charm.