Wednesday, November 25, 2009
5:00 PM
Forget All Our Cares and Go Downtown
This is a pic of the main downtown shopping area in our town. It is supposed to have been taken around the time I was born but the style of the cars here leads me to believe that it was actually taken a little before I was born. The stores, etc. look the way I remember them back when I was a preschooler though so I love the pic. Today, I hate this town more than I can thoroughly articulate but when I was still young and innocent, I loved it here and I cherish the memories I keep inside of my heart, of all the warm, wonderful times that my mom and I had shopping down on Choc*** Avenue.
Favorite Stores:
(younger years) - Ben Franklin, Woolworth, Ray's Discount Shoes, Dollar Store, all of the drug stores, Kress's
(later childhood years) - Ben Franklin, Brown's Shoe Store, Hunt's Department Store, Penney's, A****re Music, Di****d S****s, Hallmark, Anthony's, (just because my *** worked there)
(teen years) - all of the above that were still in business except for Ray's and the $ Store, plus Gibson's, Howard's, Walmart
Downtown place I probably miss the most: Star Drug Store, where we often ate or just stopped in for a cold pop. Just thinking about the atmosphere of that place makes me wish I could take my beautiful family and go back in time to show them what a fun, friendly, innocent place it once was. Evil existed in this town even back then, but it wasn't as blatantly prevalent in those days and fortunately, I was also much too young to be aware of a lot of it. But of course, I learned all of the cold, hard truths soon enough. I miss my innocense. It was sweet while it lasted.