The Dinosaur from the Sixties | Philip A. Farruggio

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Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

July 31, 2014

What kind of country do we now inhabit?

Where I live, a small city of 60,000, there is absolutely nothing reminiscent of the world I once knew. This town is one of boxstores, strip malls, third rate mass transit (duh, like hardly any), and subdivisions where few even know one another, let alone socialize that much. Even the suburbia of my youth offered more than this… yet they tell us we have evolved in this 21st century whereupon Wal-Mart has become the new city market!

I’m a dinosaur from the village of Avenue U in the city of Brooklyn (called borough despite its population of nearly three million). Got that? Now I realize this doesn’t make sense to anyone who never lived in such a place. A village in such an urban environment? What gives?

You see, we dinosaurs roamed around in a much more viable and practical place than you do now in this Amerika in the Age of Empire. Avenue U, circa 1960s, was in fact just like a village. I could walk around the corner and shop for almost everything my family needed. We had the produce store, butcher shop, German deli (with those great wood barrel sour dill pickles), Italian bakery ( where they referred to loaves of bread as fish: “Let me have two large fish with no seeds“), luncheonette (where you could get a Lime Rickey or Egg Cream -- that’s for another column), pizza parlor (as they were called then), pharmacy (they delivered till closing at 9 PM), dry cleaner, shoe repair (yeah, they had one in every village), men’s tailor and ladies dress shops, leather goods shop... need I go on?

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