Last year an apartment we lived in above a corner store burned to the ground. I had so many childhood memories playing in the backyard there and now it's gone. It makes me sad everytime I drive by.
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Last year an apartment we lived in above a corner store burned to the ground. I had so many childhood memories playing in the backyard there and now it's gone. It makes me sad everytime I drive by.
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I live in my hometown, so it's been a gradual thing watching all the stores I frequented close or change. Ben Franklin's and Howards are long gone, although their buildings remain. Ben Franklin's is currently used as the local Republican party headquarters, but it's been a flea market, thrift store, antique mall, clothing store, you name it in the last 25 years or so. Howard's building became a Big Lots until they pulled out a few years ago. It's since been two furniture stores, and is now a Tractor Supply.
All of the small drugstores in town are gone save one. It happens to be the one up the street from my dad's house, where I grew up. It's still there, but they no longer carry comics or rack toys. Sigh.
Chris
I feel you on that one.I remember when I was young our 7-11 had all types of rack toys and comics. All the mom and pop drug stores are gone where I grew up. Some of our food stores are still there but the look remodeled and different. Every shopping center in our area looked different and each one had it's own charm. Now they have been remodeled and look the same. Half are the stores have "for lease" signs in the window and it was never like that when I was a kid.Originally Posted by Earth 2 Chris
The malls as well at least the ones still standing. When I was young the malls were thriving 7 days a week. Went back a year ago and that same mall was a ghost town. Made me sad.
Alot of the areas that were woods where we used to play are now Walmarts/Targets etc.
Hey gang! Just got back from my vacation. Went back to my neighborhood. It was good therapy for me. i brought my girlfriend with me who had never been there before. Some things were the same and others were different. It's crazy how small everything is now but i remember it being so big when I was a kid. Was strange when I went to our old shopping center and only the bowling alley that's been there forever was the only place from my childhood still standing. The KMART that had been there forever since the 70's just shut down last year. Was sad to see a big empty building where I used to get my mego's. One thing to I noticed is that most people in that area now have landscapers, they NEVER had those when I was a kid. Everyone did there own lawns and gardens and I remember talking to my neighbors doing that when I was a kid. My elementary school still looks the same but my high school look much bigger since they added on a whole bunch of new stuff. Was wild to stand in the exact same spots were I stood 25-33 years ago. Kind of eriee but in a good way. All the music stores are long gone. One thing that amazed me was how much they have built since those days. i was like "this wasn't there, that wasn't there". But it was good therapy for me none the less.
They don't leave you time to think about it around here...turning our interstates into 6 lanes...new business popping up everywhere...I need to move further back in the country
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Invincible Ironing Man
The movie theatre where I saw all my childhood movies such as Aristocats and Snow White now shows porn movies.
They still show Snow White, but the things she does to those dwarves just ain't right...
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"Everything has an end.
Except sausages, which have two..."
The golden part of my childhood was spent in a small school in the foresty mountains. There was a nice little family community there due to the logging mills.
Now the logging mills have been shut down, the families dispersed, and drug growers and dealers have taken over. Not safe to walk in the forest alone anymore. I'd be afraid to go visit now!
darn spotted owls. *harumph*
Too many to mention. A lot it is of course things just going out of business. What irks me the most isn't just things dissapearing but whne you find something to replace it with, that too often time goes away! Not only do I get sad and many times I ofter wonder "why?". Best example: there was movie theater a few town away where I saw EVERYTHING from childhood until it closed in 2007. Also in that same area was an awesome arcade/fun center for about 14 yeas closing in 2005. Early in 2009 I discovered a mall that had what I basically considered a great replacement: a movie theater that was originally from the same chain and right across from it a game room. I was bit of a drive but I always enjoyed making a day of it. Last year AMC decides to turn the theater into it's upscale "Dine-In" completely overhauling it and as a stipulation for doing the mall this "favor" mandated the arcade close.
It's one of the big reasons I love collecting. You have these time capsules that no one can take away from you unless you yourself decided to sell them.
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That makes me more sad...nature being ravaged like that...than man-made thingies disappearing.The golden part of my childhood was spent in a small school in the foresty mountains. There was a nice little family community there due to the logging mills.
Now the logging mills have been shut down, the families dispersed, and drug growers and dealers have taken over. Not safe to walk in the forest alone anymore. I'd be afraid to go visit now!
darn spotted owls. *harumph*
No doubt.
Plus all the ravishing scares Bigfoot away.
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