Places You Loved That No Longer Exist
May 28, 2013, 9:05 am
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May 28, 2013, 9:43 am
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West Berlin before the wall came down. The city was electric, and the residents seemed to be living life to the fullest, on the presumption the WWIII could begin any day.
Visited again, 30 months after the border opened up, and the city had lost all of its appeal, and long time West residents had a clear antipathy toward those who used to live in the East.
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This is just an observation about the old West Berlin city that no longer exists. The ability of those under communist control to take control of their life decisions, trumps IMO the loss of sense of community that used to exist in the Western zones.
Visited again, 30 months after the border opened up, and the city had lost all of its appeal, and long time West residents had a clear antipathy toward those who used to live in the East.
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This is just an observation about the old West Berlin city that no longer exists. The ability of those under communist control to take control of their life decisions, trumps IMO the loss of sense of community that used to exist in the Western zones.
***Does anyone else remember these? In my family's neighborhood, there was a set of wooden stairs up to a large viewing platform where people could stand and look into East Berlin. I don't know who built or maintained it. It sat back from the street, meaning it didn't hang over the wall and it provided a clear view of the "other side."
May 28, 2013, 6:09 pm
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Las Vegas, before all the mega-resorts were built and the city outside of the Strip grew into a metropolis.
I used to love visiting as a little kid, even though much of it was off-limits to me. Now it's almost difficult to visualize the Strip is in the middle of the desert. It used be wide distances between each property.
I still like watching the '70s TV show, "Vega$" just for glimpses of Las Vegas during that era.
I used to love visiting as a little kid, even though much of it was off-limits to me. Now it's almost difficult to visualize the Strip is in the middle of the desert. It used be wide distances between each property.
I still like watching the '70s TV show, "Vega$" just for glimpses of Las Vegas during that era.
May 28, 2013, 6:44 pm
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The Boblo Island amusement park. If you grew up in parts of Michigan or Ohio, there was about a 50% chance that taking the ferry to Boblo counted as your first visit to a foreign country since it was on the Canadian side of the river.
May 28, 2013, 11:07 pm
#40
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best answer so far...such a tragedy.
I would throw Rumplemeyers out there...only went there once, when I was about 10 years old but I won't ever forget it. When I moved to NY it had closed, I was bummed.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/...nt?oid=1134758
I would throw Rumplemeyers out there...only went there once, when I was about 10 years old but I won't ever forget it. When I moved to NY it had closed, I was bummed.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/...nt?oid=1134758
Hmm, to put a different spin on the topic, and in the same neighborhood as Rumplemeyers, I liked FAO Schwarz way back when...I was in my high single digit years. There used to be a Houlihan's (or a similar restaurant) in the plaza where the Apple store is now, and those two places made for a common layover in the early 90s.
May 28, 2013, 11:59 pm
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The cockpit when landing at Kai Tak. Pre-2001 and when my age was still one digit,the pilots on CX would always let me watch them land if I stood very quietly in the cockpit (and sat down in the jumpseat for the final approach). Navigating so closely to those buildings was always amazing/terrifying.
May 29, 2013, 10:00 am
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I can see Boblo from my parents house!
May 29, 2013, 10:41 am
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The tiki bar and resturaunt between the main terminal and the inter island terminal at HNL. Great stop for a mai tai and a plate lunch after a long flight from the mainland.