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Yes - the same has happened to most towns and cities.
They have been improved, so at least the changes are mainly for the better. they were pretty grim in the 70s and 80s.
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 21, 2007 at 9:39 AM
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antonionioni
It's funny, you can go to a place and whole streets are gone; town centres are pedestrianised, it's all one-way streets if you are daft enough to try to drive around town, and it feels like you've landed in the tardis somewhere. I get the same jolt when I go home to the town I grew up in.
posted by
mneme
on September 21, 2007 at 6:11 AM
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Thanks Peg - you're right!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 20, 2007 at 2:06 PM
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anoither memory laner
enjoyed your words, memories cant be changed, even though the world around us does, sometimes we just need to hold on to our memories just to keep our sanity in this world we now live in. keep up the good words - peg
posted by
1pegesus4u
on September 20, 2007 at 1:35 PM
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Thank you guys and gals - I appreciate your great comments!!!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 19, 2007 at 10:10 AM
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Hi Tony, WoW, read Free Will too.
Pls give me another 2 days to go through some of your earlier posts. I'm badly stuck, and it sucks. Can rarely read, write comment, or reply.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on September 19, 2007 at 6:42 AM
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Transition - another name for life. Change is inevitable - resistance is futile. Can memory be trusted? Does it matter? As long as they suit us, comfort us, inspire us. Oh dear, your words have taken me to another plane today. Philosophy at 6 am. LOL AmMused
posted by
AmMused
on September 19, 2007 at 4:19 AM
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Sometime memory lane is not how we remember it to be e?
Fortunately those memories are locked within us and our imagination does the rest.
posted by
mariaki
on September 19, 2007 at 2:48 AM
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posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on September 19, 2007 at 2:14 AM
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Thanks to you all for your luvverly comments - varied and interesting!
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 19, 2007 at 12:14 AM
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Love your rythmic style!
posted by
heartworms
on September 18, 2007 at 9:25 PM
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Antonio
And yet Morrison called upon us to, "Learn to forget..." 
posted by
Enigmatic68
on September 18, 2007 at 5:46 PM
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Choochooanton, I did that train ride a couple of years ago!!!!!
this Aussie really does love the old country y' know.
posted by
Kabu
on September 18, 2007 at 4:02 PM
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Atoniononi, I've lived long enough to revisit many places and witness many changes. I should live long enough still to witness many changes more. There is something deep that comes from all of this - something about the transitoriness of all that we perceive and of the permanence upon which all of it rests. Thank you for the sonnet. Moon 
posted by
magic_moon
on September 18, 2007 at 3:58 PM
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very good
you told the story to the point, without awkward breaks, and without useless details inserted for the sole purpous of rhyming
places you above most poets!
posted by
JustJilly
on September 18, 2007 at 3:24 PM
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Or ya, even.
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 18, 2007 at 2:03 PM
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Hi OTA n' Chris - here's lookin' at a.
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 18, 2007 at 2:03 PM
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That's great Tony! We have the memory-as clear as a picture-in our heads
but-when we return-we are almost shocked by the changes! Nothing stays the same-and nothing is ever the same-the second time round!God bless-Chris.
posted by
Scramble
on September 18, 2007 at 1:21 PM
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Tony, I like to take trips down memory lane.. this one of yours was intersting. ~Peace, OTA
posted by
Blue_feathers
on September 18, 2007 at 11:36 AM
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True - but if you go back somewhere you haven't been for ages,
even if it's changed, you keep getting echoes of bits of the past that you'd forgotten. But you're right - we shouldn't try to live in the past.
posted by
Antonionioni
on September 18, 2007 at 11:28 AM
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Tony
Searching for times lost never works. There's is something to be said for the adage "you can't go back". Things never seem quite the same.
posted by
Troosha
on September 18, 2007 at 10:43 AM
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