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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
Page 317
Downtown
You probably take little meaning from this word unless you are quite old. Sure, it’s that abandoned part of town where the businesses requiring a low rent to make a go of it are.
No, downtown is gone. Hell, even the malls which replaced it are on their last legs, being converted to government office spaces and apartments for the low, section 8 rent set.
Gone.
Gome is the downtown block you could walk to which hosted three five and tens; Woolworth’s one of them with its wonderful lunch counter. We all know what happened there, precipitating the decline which has resulted in the closing of the physical stores, while becoming a British on-line company.
Gone.
Santa was in the basement not far from the toy section, and Mom would take you by the hand or wheel you in a carriage to see him, and while you sat in his lap you told him all the things you wanted for Christmas.
“Silver Bells”
Bing Crosby