I grew up in a typical small new england mill town.
I remember the corner 5 and 10 store - LOVED that place.
The little grocery store, before the "big" supermarket moved into town (about 1/10th the size of today's supermarkts).
The small hardware store I'd go to with my father and grandfather.
There was also a cobler selling shoes. I was always fascinated by his tools.
There was a bank with the big vault door you could see - I was always afraid of getting locked in there - don't ask my how I thought that might actually happen.
All beautiful brick buildings with dusty creaky wood floors.
Unfortunately the center of our town burned down when I was about 10.
The nice old brick buildings were either gone, or gutted and cut down to half their original size. All replaced by ugly 1970's era structures. All so ugly.
It was a tough place to grow up. I lost all of my old friends to hard drugs, drunk driving crashes, and prison.
But I think that was a generational thing. My generation grew up on the tail end of the 60's crowd.
We were the aftermath of all the peace love and happy drugs.
But funny how it all seemed to go downhill together - the beautiful town center burning down and the bottoming out of our local society.
The town has since come back around and is a better place to live now. I don't live there anymore, but I'm not far.
But it's funny too how i have great OLD memories of the town, but too many bad memories after that to really care much about it.
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