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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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

Thanks Peg - you're right!

posted by Antonionioni on September 20, 2007 at 2:06 PM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

Thank you guys and gals - I appreciate your great comments!!!

posted by Antonionioni on September 19, 2007 at 10:10 AM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

posted by _teddypoet_ on September 19, 2007 at 2:14 AM | link to this | reply

Thanks to you all for your luvverly comments - varied and interesting!

posted by Antonionioni on September 19, 2007 at 12:14 AM | link to this | reply

Love your rythmic style!

posted by heartworms on September 18, 2007 at 9:25 PM | link to this | reply

Antonio

And yet Morrison called upon us to, "Learn to forget..."

posted by Enigmatic68 on September 18, 2007 at 5:46 PM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 thepoetBubbaGirl on September 18, 2007 at 3:24 PM | link to this | reply

Or ya, even.

posted by Antonionioni on September 18, 2007 at 2:03 PM | link to this | reply

Hi OTA n' Chris - here's lookin' at a.

posted by Antonionioni on September 18, 2007 at 2:03 PM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

Tony, I like to take trips down memory lane.. this one of yours was intersting. ~Peace, OTA

posted by OTA. on September 18, 2007 at 11:36 AM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply