The suburb where I was a little kid in the late 80s was also "grittier" then, and I'll just be honest, I can't imagine romanticizing the strip mall that had an old Ames store, a perpetually cigarette-smelling bowling alley, and a layer of diesel grime on everything near the street
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...