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Lived there for 28 years and knew those places, owners and a lot of the customers. The smell of the bakery in the morning was intoxicating. Thanks for the memories.

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Yes, nearly all gone, along with sandlot baseball.

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Great piece! p.s. I loved getting a latte at the drive through bank window!

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Yup. We had a drug store and grocery store and a toy store and a pizza place and even a laundromat when I moved into my neighborhood. Now we have a fancy cheese shop, an overpriced flower store who only seems to sell orchids, and three dress shops two of which cost money just looking in the windows. Change…..

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Love the last line—says it all.

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I love my local pharmacy and hope it stays around. Great personal service as well as cards, gifts and soaps. We also have a new independent bookstore that a is doing a brisk business.

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Have you read the heaven on earth grocery store, by James McBride? It addresses basically what you’re talking about - it’s happened here in Louisville and it’s very sad.

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The exact same thing happens in Chapel Hill, NC. We had a great book store, drug store, camera store, post office, waffle shop, florist, a small independent restaurant that played classical music, only the Post Office and restaurant have survived- the rest are fast food places, T shirt shops , Starbucks, and such… Julie c

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Progress. The trajectory: mom and pop, people who never met each other but for the job, and finally robots

These are the new, soon to be , “ good olde days”

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