On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Buffalo is a city with special significance for me. It was here that I met
> my wife back in 1979, and we lived in the Allentown neighbourhood during
> the first year of our marriage, 1983-84. So it is a delicious irony that
> our son now lives here. We are visiting him right now, and yesterday we
> drove to “our” old neighbourhood to see the old places. The apartment
> building where we lived and the bar on Elmwood Avenue where we used to go
> for cheap wings and cheap beer (the only entertainment we could affort back
> then) are still there. A few nostalgic pictures are here:
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/buffalo/
>
> I will add more as we explore places such as the Amherst campus of the
> State University of New York at Buffalo, the place where we actually met 35
> years ago.
>
Sometimes it's disappointing to go back in time. The neighborhood in
Chicago where we were living when I was born looks much nicer and cleaner
than when my folks decided to leave. However, the town in Southern
Illinois where I grew up has changed a lot.
My first apartment right out of college is gone - a serial arsonist (who
was later caught) torched it about a year after I left. My first real
apartment complex, however, is still there and still looks pretty much the
same. The campus of Valparaiso University, however, has changed a LOT.
There are a handful of new buildings, almost all of the historical
buildings on "old campus" are gone, and they've decided to turn it into a
pedestrian campus, removing almost all of the roads that I used to know.
Any time I have to go on campus now for something, I'm totally lost and end
up in a parking lot a half-mile from wherever it is I need to be.
--
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
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