Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] [Img] Exhibit Opening
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sat Oct 13 18:06:12 2007
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Thanks for the story Gilbert.

We have a lot of fading towns in Massachusetts too, especially those 
which were the home of just one factory.

Jim

J. Gilbert Plantinga wrote:

> Yes, primarily the advent of affordable air travel. But there's more.  
> Up the side street ("Short Ave.") on the right of the frame one block  
> is a traffic light on the "new" Route 17, called the "Quickway,"  which 
> is a divided expressway built in the '60s. The Quickway is  scheduled to 
> become Interstate 86 in the next few years, which means  that the 
> traffic light will have to be removed, and the pizza joint  and gas 
> station/convenience store at that corner, which are the only  viable 
> businesses in Parksville, will also disappear, no doubt. While  I was 
> making the picture, the owner of Big Willie's barbecue  restaurant on 
> the left in the picture came out to ask me what I was  up to. He'd 
> bought his business about three years ago and was losing  his shirt. 
> There's been talk of trying to rescue the region's economy  by bringing 
> in Indian-owned gambling casinos -- it's a hot topic.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
> On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> 
>> A look at the map shows no nearby interstate, so did the migration  of 
>> said to New Yorkers to other, more distant tourist spots kill  the town?


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