Tranq is here.. and everywhere.. heartbreaking and ghoulish videos of people with amputated limbs and skin falling off makes the scenery appear to be more akin to a horror movie than reality.
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Post apocalyptic mall retail: The revenge of main street
For those born in the 1980s and beyond, we don’t know much of the amazing main streets that once existed. We see boarded up dilapidated evidence that it was there.. But we only new malls. People pondered if malls would kill main street. They did. Now main street got its revenge.. malls are dying too. Sadly it’s too far gone for main street to even think about a comeback, at least in most places.
Continue readingGuntown goes green: Girardville through history, and the blight of modern times
The history of Girardville is beautiful. Modern times may have blighted a town, but pride is deep.
Continue readingDrive in 2021 Episode 3: The Laurel Drive-In: THE RISE AND FALL ON ROUTE 309
THE RISE AND FALL ON ROUTE 309
Continue readingDRIVE-IN 2021 EPISODE 1: The Natalie Drive In
The Natalie Drive In: From fame to profane and now a remnant tucked in the woods
Continue readingTrinity closes: The tiny school that couldn’t North of the Mountain
In the same exact pattern and fashion. Rumor and gossip followed by an official announcement of a “study,” then public meetings and parental outcries.. and then silence before the May day deed is done. The closing of another Catholic school…
And now the ‘blue and gold’ are gone for good.
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