What did you have in your childhood area that you dont have now in your current area?

Farms and woodlands. My hometown was mostly rural but now it's all suburban sprawl. None of the old farms are there anymore, they've all been replaced with houses, condos, self storage places and shopping plazas.

 

Hope.

 

The second part of the explanation made no sense at first, but then I realised that corrosion between the positive and the ignition coil, could have resulted in a voltage drop on the LV side. Many things get far more complex when you dig deeper.

 

Good Humor ice cream trucks
Roller rinks
Drive-In movie theaters
Hot Dog fast food restaurants
Snow
White Castle burger joint

 

Three blocks away was a movie theater with the Saturday morning kid show: cartoons, the serial (Sir Galahad dodged arrows), a double feature. A mom and pop grocery store on the corner. The doctor across the street had a pool table.

 

Lake flys
Rabbit ear antennas
Glass 12 oz pop bottles
Duck decoys

 

Not just record stores, but the art work on album covers.

 

Fresh cheese curds at the cheese factory
10 to15 year old boys coming to school with manure on their shoes from barn cleaning.
The rumble of a freezing lake as the cold freezes the lake deeper and the ice expands
Chocolate flavored goiter pills for our daily iodine dose at school
The flickering dance of the aurora borealis

 

All my old friends. They are dead.

 

When we were kids, there were a number of parks we could simply walk to hit a ball around with a few guys - forget that today. The school ball field is locked up. Soccer fields are reserved only.

 

A school, Christian churches down every block, a spiritual shop, plumbing service, gas station

 

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Ponderosa
Bonanza
Wendys super bar

Oh my...Makes me sad

 

Ha - Ponderosa.....we'd get the cheapest steak thing..and just gorge ourselves on the salad bar...ah, college..

 

Streamlined "railroad car" diners

Auto supply shops with gas pumps on the curb

5 & 10s

Candy stores

Delcatessens (German/Jewish/Italian)

Chili parlors

Utility poles with metal rungs for linemen to climb up

Clotheslines

Bus stops on almost every corner

 

And, in my teen years............

Photomat

Arthur Treacher's

Roy Rogers'

delicatessens

Stationary shops

Bus stops on every block

Dairy Queen

 

I'm confused. Very few, if any, answers correspond with the question asked.

Anyway, other than some specific mom and pop businesses, we have all the same things here as we do in my hometown. I only migrated about two hours from where I grew up, so culturally and economically, it's all the same.

 

This was my original reply and while it started out as answering the original question, it did transition into complaining about how the area I grew up in, no longer resembles the town I once knew.

Proper answer...
The area I currently live in does not have farms and woodlands like my childhood area had when I was growing up.

 

I suppose that is true for me as well. I grew up in a rural area, near a small town, and eventually moved to a city of over half a million people.