03-31-2012, 04:06 PM
faraway Wrote:jwb Wrote:They got a smaller "noname" supermarket at the outskirt. The old brick building strip is physically still existing but in lousy shape. Lots of stores are unused, empty or used for pawn shops etc. It is sad to drive through those small town as a tourist but it must be worse if you are young and hungry for the colorful world or if you are old and remember how your home town has been many years ago.
See, this is the world I'm used to.
Yeah, I just spent the afternoon walking around Old Town Alexandria where the brick storefronts have given way to upscale boutiques and cupcake shops. But I'm used to those dead towns where its been 1975 for the last 37 years. I grew up in Butler PA and that town hasn't changed since the day Pullman-Standard shut down the plant. Well, it has changed in the sense that things go out of business. The Wal-Mart is always to blame, but those businesses were already dead before they built the big boxes. You can't expect to stay in business when you're not open seven days a week and close at 530. But that's a whole tangent.