Friday, November 10, 2006

post office: 1923-2006

you know when you frequent a place for a number of years, its demise is like losing a friend. today, our post office closed for the sake of progress.

Post Office

this building, built in 1923, is being razed in a number of days. in its place, a skyscraper will be built to make space for more, ta-dah, luxury high-rise condominiums. the post office will eventually return when the construction is done in three to four years. but no longer will the place have that familiar, musty, attic smell that old post offices always do. instead, the future venue will look like a strip mall-type post office with fancy automated kiosks and lcd screens.

Vernon

vernon will no longer be selling soda, chips, and the globe in the lobby. he, unlike the rest of the mail carriers and sorters, will have to find a new job come monday.

Vernon's Lobby Shop

it seems that this is the way of the world; out with the old, in with homogeneity.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

D'oh! That's just not right.

I would refer you to the destruction of the White Plains, NY train station, apparently used as the model for the Lionel toy train station, now replaced with a station that is truly a glorified escalator with a Dunkin' Donuts. The old station had apparently become a den of iniquity, but still....

(Just the first example that came to mind. There are so many others!)

Anonymous said...

sigh...