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I used to live there, now it's a ruin...

Renae said:
Buckholts, Texas - The Line Shack Restaurant - Our Ruins

Seriously, that is... A FREAKING MAZING to see. I mean, we had a restaurant/bar, a garage and living area, and now it's... its dead. **** me.
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Sad when this happens, I see it all the time when I go back to Montana. A lot of my childhood haunts are now nothing but wasting away buildings or cleared empty lots. Sucks, because as you get older the memories are hard enough to keep fresh without losing the structures.
 
Truckstop said:
Sad when this happens, I see it all the time when I go back to Montana. A lot of my childhood haunts are now nothing but wasting away buildings or cleared empty lots. Sucks, because as you get older the memories are hard enough to keep fresh without losing the structures.
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Yeah my ousin is reminding me of some of my less stellar moment,s like sneaking in the window and getting greeted with a shot gun! (I was out past curfew lol)
 
If my childhood community ceased to exist, I'd re-examine its teachings.
 
The first house I ever bought had a weed infested yard. I worked and worked on that yard. Had a mail order of special grass plugs to turn that yard into a golf course.

I moved on and it was looking great. Neighbors complimented me on it.

Years went by and I drove by to see how it was doing. The new owners had brought gravel in and covered the front yard to make a parking spot for his pickup.

Good grief if he had to walk more than 5 steps to the front door.

Pissed me off.
 
Truckstop said:
Sad when this happens, I see it all the time when I go back to Montana. A lot of my childhood haunts are now nothing but wasting away buildings or cleared empty lots. Sucks, because as you get older the memories are hard enough to keep fresh without losing the structures.
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i have family in bozeman. they can't build fast enough there
not enough contractors available for the demand for new construction, especially housing
 
Crosscheck said:
The first house I ever bought had a weed infested yard. I worked and worked on that yard. Had a mail order of special grass plugs to turn that yard into a golf course.

I moved on and it was looking great. Neighbors complimented me on it.

Years went by and I drove by to see how it was doing. The new owners had brought gravel in and covered the front yard to make a parking spot for his pickup.

Good grief if he had to walk more than 5 steps to the front door.

Pissed me off.
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Zoysia?
 
Renae said:
Yeah my ousin is reminding me of some of my less stellar moment,s like sneaking in the window and getting greeted with a shot gun! (I was out past curfew lol)
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And you blamed the NRA, of course;)

Sad to see places not taken care of or in ruin. Reason why I try to never drive past places I used to live/own.
 
justabubba said:
i have family in bozeman. they can't build fast enough there
not enough contractors available for the demand for new construction, especially housing
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Yeah well Bozeman has always had a lot going for it even in the 1970's.
I almost got hired at a radio station back there.
 
Time goes by fast, doesn't it? What was once the cat's meow is soon not recognizable. Most of us aren't either, but that's for another story.
Some of you mentioned having lived here and there. I think it would be some interesting if more people looked about, just to see how the other half lives. People who grew up in large cities probably have no idea what people in very rural areas have to deal with, and vice versa.
Talk to someone who grew up in Queens i.e., and ask them what a bacco barn surrounded with briars is. Or take someone from the deep south and have them navigate Times Square. Would make for an interesting experiment, don't you think?
Back to the topic. Things change. Life goes on. I miss ice cream parlors.
 
Lovebug said:
Time goes by fast, doesn't it? What was once the cat's meow is soon not recognizable. Most of us aren't either, but that's for another story.
Some of you mentioned having lived here and there. I think it would be some interesting if more people looked about, just to see how the other half lives. People who grew up in large cities probably have no idea what people in very rural areas have to deal with, and vice versa.
Talk to someone who grew up in Queens i.e., and ask them what a bacco barn surrounded with briars is. Or take someone from the deep south and have them navigate Times Square. Would make for an interesting experiment, don't you think?
Back to the topic. Things change. Life goes on. I miss ice cream parlors.
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As the old Johnny Cash song says...

 
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Acadia said:
And you blamed the NRA, of course;)

Sad to see places not taken care of or in ruin. Reason why I try to never drive past places I used to live/own.
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Nah I earned the negative response to my teen age stupid, they weren't gonna shoot, just remind me such behavior is not tolerated.
 
Lovebug said:
Time goes by fast, doesn't it? What was once the cat's meow is soon not recognizable. Most of us aren't either, but that's for another story.
Some of you mentioned having lived here and there. I think it would be some interesting if more people looked about, just to see how the other half lives. People who grew up in large cities probably have no idea what people in very rural areas have to deal with, and vice versa.
Talk to someone who grew up in Queens i.e., and ask them what a bacco barn surrounded with briars is. Or take someone from the deep south and have them navigate Times Square. Would make for an interesting experiment, don't you think?
Back to the topic. Things change. Life goes on. I miss ice cream parlors.
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Oh it does change, but to see a place I spent many a night working the bar, serving customers, raising hell at now a "ruin..." is just.. damn.
 
SDET said:
Johnny Cash ripped it off; it was Hank Snow (1962):

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You're absolutely right. I am almost always first to point out that Leon Russell is the one who wrote "A Song For You" and the reality TV based "talent show" industry continually credits Donny Hathaway for it.
 
JT's Hamburgers......a little burger shop in West Saint Paul, MN.

My father used to go there when he was in High School, then, many years later I did the same when I was in High School.....I feel fortunate that I was able to take my kids there.
The burgers were decent and inexpensive; but the family eventually sold it to someone else and the quality simply vanished,
..it didnt last long after that,
Its gone now...plowed under to make room for a fast food chain place; sad to see memories paved over in the name of progress.


ls.webp
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Change is the very nature of existence. That place couldn't make it. Now it's a derelict wreck.

Too bad, so sad.
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It died because of my idiot aunt, she served alcohol to people under 21 and it caused a serious problem, I don't have the details just that someone was killed in a wreck. She refused to sell the shack, and well... it died cause she was dumb. She's also the crazy bitch that put a loaded gun to my head, but that's another story.
 
Renae said:
Buckholts, Texas - The Line Shack Restaurant - Our Ruins

Seriously, that is... A FREAKING MAZING to see. I mean, we had a restaurant/bar, a garage and living area, and now it's... its dead. **** me.
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As long as the multinationals are winning, who cares? Right?

Literally this is a part of the whole game that multinationals play. They're destroying communities.

Remember when New York basically said to Amazon or Google (is there much of a difference any more?) that they weren't going to give them massive tax cuts to go there, and then many people were like "but these are jobs they're blowing away"? Well, the reality is the jobs are a short term thing, the community is a long term thing.

In the EU they stopped Ireland giving a preferential tax rate to Google (them forks again). It's one of the best reasons to support the EU. The UK wants out of the EU so it can sell itself down the river to multinationals, so it can end up with desolation. Everyone working for the multi-nationals and no independent businesses.
 
Renae said:
It died because of my idiot aunt, she served alcohol to people under 21 and it caused a serious problem, I don't have the details just that someone was killed in a wreck. She refused to sell the shack, and well... it died cause she was dumb. She's also the crazy bitch that put a loaded gun to my head, but that's another story.
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OK. I can understand that.

But, nevertheless, nothing lasts. Literally nothing. Impermanence is the very calling card of living, and life has no shelter, nothing permanent; it is always swept away.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
OK. I can understand that.

But, nevertheless, nothing lasts. Literally nothing. Impermanence is the very calling card of living, and life has no shelter, nothing permanent; it is always swept away.
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True, but to see a ruin of a place you called home, it's... weird
 
Renae said:
Buckholts, Texas - The Line Shack Restaurant - Our Ruins

Seriously, that is... A FREAKING MAZING to see. I mean, we had a restaurant/bar, a garage and living area, and now it's... its dead. **** me.
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Drive between the California border and New Mexico along the old Route 66 and you will see sections of the road dying... Any business too far from the off ramps is doomed to eventual failure...
 
Frigidweirdo said:
As long as the multinationals are winning, who cares? Right?

Literally this is a part of the whole game that multinationals play. They're destroying communities.

Remember when New York basically said to Amazon or Google (is there much of a difference any more?) that they weren't going to give them massive tax cuts to go there, and then many people were like "but these are jobs they're blowing away"? Well, the reality is the jobs are a short term thing, the community is a long term thing.

In the EU they stopped Ireland giving a preferential tax rate to Google (them forks again). It's one of the best reasons to support the EU. The UK wants out of the EU so it can sell itself down the river to multinationals, so it can end up with desolation. Everyone working for the multi-nationals and no independent businesses.
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What exactly did the "multinationals" do at this site. Or the hundreds of others dotting the West?
 
Fledermaus said:
Drive between the California border and New Mexico along the old Route 66 and you will see sections of the road dying... Any business too far from the off ramps is doomed to eventual failure...
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We had our regulars, and steady business. It wasn't gang busters but it kept the lights on.
 
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