Got sidetracked today, but it was interesting.

Today I watched a video about the history of Newark, New Jersey.

Newark was a very big city, near to Elizabeth (which was big, too, but not as big as Newark).  Newark had much more of a big-city feel to it.  I remembered when I was about eight years old, and a neighbor took me to Newark for a day of shopping.  Those department stores!  They were incredible.  Palatial.  They had in-store restaurants–real ones– with waitresses in uniforms, and silver and china place settings.  They had floorwalkers–men with carnations in their buttonholes.It was a different world from today.  After WWII, there was a rapid decline in the population.  The GI’s returning from the war found that mortgage financing was easier to get for suburban housing as opposed to urban.  The population decline, plus poverty, plus other influences caused the decline of Newark.  Just in my lifetime, such a change.  It is gone forever.

Not all change is change for the better.  Sometimes I think it is mostly not for the better.

I also spent time reading through a lot of Lee’s Inquisitor  columns from both The Independent  and Today.

Now I have a better idea of what I will post tomorrow.

Another clear, sunny and beautiful day.

That’s always a good thing.

Have a good night, all.

See you tomorrow.

God bless everybody.

Patty