"Today we look back on it all in hurt and wonder. How did this happen? Where did that good life go? When an accidental detour or missed expressway exit brings us into contact with the world we left behind, we can still place all the blame firmly and squarely elsewhere. The shuttered factories and collapsing row houses, the cavant storefronts and rutted streets are regarded with the same awe reserved for scenes of natural disasters. We look out on a world that somehow, in the American collective memory, destroyed itself."
Ray Suarez: The Old Neighborhood (1999)
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