AdrianLvsRocky
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Hi all - hope you all had a great Christmas.
I spent Christmas Day over my brother's. He's a paramedic and often tells great stories about the people he's met and the places he's been etc. and I thought you ladies in particular would appreciate the one he told me at Christmas.
He had a call out to a lady in a house in the middle of a town centre. It's not a huge town but it's fairly busy with your average bunch of shops. We live in South Wales so most towns are all the same with the same old chains of shops.
Anyway, he got to the front door which looked like your average, every day front door but when he opened it and stepped through he said it was like stepping back in time.
He had walked into what was essentially a 50s diner. It had red leather booth seats, beautiful mirrored walls with old Cadbury's and Coca Cola adverts, a big chrome counter with a coffee machine and cake stands. There were photos covering the walls of the original Italian owners and their families. Everything was spotlessly clean with towels covering most of the equipment.
When he went upstairs to see to the lady she was there with her brother who lived with her. My brother asked about the diner downstairs and they told him that it had been a family business for decades but as they were unmarried and had no children they just closed it down when they got too old to manage it. They had just cleaned up and locked the door in 1995!
I think this is so sad in one way but so exciting in another. Imagine walking into a place where nothing has really changed since it first opened. I expect this sort of place is much more common in the US but it's extremely rare to find somewhere like this in the South Wales valleys!
So, my question is, if you could open a door into a "time warp" where and when would you go? A clothes shop, a bar, a grocery store?
I spent Christmas Day over my brother's. He's a paramedic and often tells great stories about the people he's met and the places he's been etc. and I thought you ladies in particular would appreciate the one he told me at Christmas.
He had a call out to a lady in a house in the middle of a town centre. It's not a huge town but it's fairly busy with your average bunch of shops. We live in South Wales so most towns are all the same with the same old chains of shops.
Anyway, he got to the front door which looked like your average, every day front door but when he opened it and stepped through he said it was like stepping back in time.
He had walked into what was essentially a 50s diner. It had red leather booth seats, beautiful mirrored walls with old Cadbury's and Coca Cola adverts, a big chrome counter with a coffee machine and cake stands. There were photos covering the walls of the original Italian owners and their families. Everything was spotlessly clean with towels covering most of the equipment.
When he went upstairs to see to the lady she was there with her brother who lived with her. My brother asked about the diner downstairs and they told him that it had been a family business for decades but as they were unmarried and had no children they just closed it down when they got too old to manage it. They had just cleaned up and locked the door in 1995!
I think this is so sad in one way but so exciting in another. Imagine walking into a place where nothing has really changed since it first opened. I expect this sort of place is much more common in the US but it's extremely rare to find somewhere like this in the South Wales valleys!
So, my question is, if you could open a door into a "time warp" where and when would you go? A clothes shop, a bar, a grocery store?
