why I love Coney Island

[kaffeeistgut]

So, the Houston Astros are celebrating some kind of anniversary - probably fifty years of the franchise. They've been posting pictures all month - they show up on my facespace every morning. I went gaga over this one, from, guessing by the cars, about forty years ago:

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[tibbie_x]

I dont get why so much of the modern world is so blank.

[kaffeeistgut]

It's hard to wrap my head around, having lived in the Northeast so long. Here in Providence, if, say, the Fleet building, our Empire State building, just disappeared by natural disaster, the city would *mourn.* They're still bitching about Rocky Point (Rhode Island's amusement park), and that was torn down before I moved here

[tibbie_x]

I guess the people who have their shit together enough to fund/build something like a strip mall are generally not very "cool"
I NYC its just bizarre that interesting things close, like even say a comic book store and its replace with a florescent light generic nail salon, when theres another nail salon one block over. Is there really just a nailpolish demand? I get the fancy restaurants and lame sports bars.
Philadelphia is in a major time warp, tons of used book stores, used record stores, vintage clothing. I guess people are still poor enough to create the demand to keep those places open.

[kaffeeistgut]

Nails - there has to be. There's one on every street corner in Houston, even in the burbs. I don't understand it. I clip them once every couple of weeks, and I haven't had any problems yet.

I think in the case of the Asian pagoda strip mall, it was just some dude's bad idea, lack of funding, something like that. There's a huge immigrant Vietnamese population down there, so, probably some relation. I don't know who the jackasses were who built the functioning strip malls, but I kind of imagine them all as the "super cool eighties guy" from Futurama who dies of bonitis.

I miss used record stores. We have one left. One. Eh.