Oh, Parota!

Yesterday, one of our local building supply stores had a beautiful piece of parota on sale: 3 inches thick x 12 feet long, width varying between 38 and 46 inches. Price? $3850 Canadian ($2850 US).
No wonder some people cut them down. Who knows what the salvage value may have been on the beautiful parota that used to grace Calle Adelita, in between Villas Mercedes and where Ruebens is now. As I recall the photos of the carnage, the trunk was cut into fairly small chunks.