I set my temporal pocket watch for 2:34pm September 6th 1955~CE
Just a day. An ordinary day. Broadway, and 54th Street. In another version of who we still more or less are. There was an order to things. Many brutally enforced, but a stability. Presidents were visibly sane, and there was a notion that the future might be better, …at least for some.
I couldn’t wouldn't go back to live there.However I would visit certain moments. To see my mother pushing a pram with my new born little sister in it. …my father walking our dog. Grandma walking up the stoop to visit us in our new house. Those things. Common little things. These I would watch from a distance. I’d also be tempted to buy vintage comic books. Not for eBay, but to take home to the Land of Tomorrow to read, and treasure.
I see industries in this image. First, the silk screen printing industry; then a shop with cards and books - more printing, the publishing industry; textiles, haberdashery, fashion design, signage, architecture, construction, advertising; it's a thriving civilization.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't move there for another eight or nine years or so - around the time of the first Bond movies, as it happens.
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Light industry was once very common in this town.
ReplyDeleteIt employed the parents of near all my playmates.
They either worked for these or ran them.
Like my Uncle George ran a sewing machine repair company. Uncle JB a contracting company or Uncle Walter a dry cleaners.
But then you know how shiftless, and lazy us colored folks are.
All wanting something for nothing.
Did I mention I had my own weekend bike repair shop in my folks basement. I undercut the expensive bike stores with my playmates. Uncle George gave me old tools, and some supplies I took it from there.
I saw a need, and filled it.
That gig taught me what an economy is.
Spend wisely save invest,...it just comes to you that this is important. I got comics, and model planes too. However I leaned organizational, and interpersonal skills. Came in very handy later on.
Running a department of a business is like running a small shop.
...been there done that.