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Our own vintage town

Christopher

New in Town
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Manassas, Virginia
Personally I don't care what the weather is or the name of the town...um, well within reason. :p

What I want is a town that I can't be sneered at while wearing a fedora by some frumpy woman in a goose down vest, pajama bottoms, and ugly shoes. (It happened!)

A place where we can feel good about our community. People tend their yards and have flower beds and hanging laundry on a warm spring day. Where the town square has the bandstand for the High School to play and you can have picnic lunches on the hill.

A community where we can send our kids to school and don't have to have them pass through barbwire, gun turrets, security checkpoints or get taken off the streets by sickos.

A town where idiotic idealism is replaced with common sense and your religion and race and sex don't matter. A land where your character isn’t summed up in a glance and your judged as ‘unworthy’ because your tie is vintage or you put on some extra pounds during the holidays.

A place where you can have the door held open for you, a friendly hello or good morning is just that, and everyone is treated with respect.

Such places don't seem to exist anymore.
 

Shimmy Sally

Registered User
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Ahwatukee, Arizona, USA
Christopher said:
Where the town square has the bandstand for the High School to play and you can have picnic lunches on the hill.
A town where idiotic idealism is replaced with common sense, where your religion, race and gender don't matter, where your character isn’t summed up in a glance.
Sorry to abridge your post but Amen! We need a bandshell park like in my hometown.
 
Christopher said:
Personally I don't care what the weather is or the name of the town...um, well within reason. :p

What I want is a town that I can't be sneered at while wearing a fedora by some frumpy woman in a goose down vest, pajama bottoms, and ugly shoes. (It happened!)

A place where we can feel good about our community. People tend their yards and have flower beds and hanging laundry on a warm spring day. Where the town square has the bandstand for the High School to play and you can have picnic lunches on the hill.

A community where we can send our kids to school and don't have to have them pass through barbwire, gun turrets, security checkpoints or get taken off the streets by sickos.

A town where idiotic idealism is replaced with common sense and your religion and race and sex don't matter. A land where your character isn’t summed up in a glance and your judged as ‘unworthy’ because your tie is vintage or you put on some extra pounds during the holidays.

A place where you can have the door held open for you, a friendly hello or good morning is just that, and everyone is treated with respect.

Such places don't seem to exist anymore.

That is a tall order for the town tooth puller but I think you can contact Mayor Wildroot for the particulars. I think you will find he is very much in tune with what you stated. I would be as well.
I don't think places like this have ever existed throughout history. [huh]

Regards,

J
 

Christopher

New in Town
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43
Location
Manassas, Virginia
I have lived in areas where some aspects have existed and others haven't. Nothing is ever perfect and I don't expect it to be.

Even the Walgreen commercials kind of make me gag slightly.

It is a mighty tall order and with a side dish of fantasy but there are things that could be done in our town to make it better living there than in (fill in the blank).
 

olive bleu

One Too Many
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Nova Scotia
when i was a wee lass, i believed the whole world was like that. And in fact, my little corner of the world pretty much was. I think if we really want to have this kind of existence we need to get back to simplicity,trust and a wide eyed wonder of life.
 

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