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Life in These Times: Sad Days in a Small Town by reddragonfly

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Life in These Times: Sad Days in a Small Town
Thanksgiving just passed, and today I feel *very thankful* that I am no longer in the art gallery and gift business!

I needed to go to the post office on Wednesday, and since I wasn't actually in a *hurry* I decided to just amble along and truly *look at* the changes to our local landscape... much of it the result of Covid and movement restrictions since March of this year.

First thing I noticed was that the "76" gas station and Food Mart at the edge of town is now closed.

![RD0010FoodMart.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/oa3Hb48R-RD-0010-FoodMart.jpg)

Aside from being the *"last chance to get gas"* before leaving town, they also had really good street tacos and the proprietors were from India, and they also had good and fresh Indian *"to go food."*

This closed very recently... I think it was still going, last time I came by.

![RD0010BabyStore.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/dLFDvX1K-RD-0010-BabyStore.jpg)

About 200 yards down the street, what *was* our town's only children's and infants' clothing store has shut down. Perhaps not a *huge* surprise, given the median age of people living here being over 50, but still...

![RD0010MartialArts.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/O6Om0Mwf-RD-0010-MartialArts.jpg)

Almost next door, this used to be a thriving Martial Arts dojo, but since you can't really go out to do things that are *not* socially distanced... not much use for it.

I know they tried to continue with "virtual" classes... but why pay rent when you can teach those from home?

![RD0010MetroBagels.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/SoA1sgLo-RD-0010-MetroBagels.jpg)

This makes me *really* sad: This used to be *"Metro Bagels,"* and it was the only place within an hour's drive where you could get an authentic in-house made New York style bagel with lox... this was frequently my lunch (and breakfast!) when we still had the gallery.

Made it down the hill to near where the Red Dragonfly Gallery was...

![RD0010DocksideCleaners.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/JkHx6Ucs-RD-0010-DocksideCleaners.jpg)

Dockside cleaners was practically an *institution* around here... not only as the dry cleaning place, but they also rented tuxedos for decades of high school proms and other festivities. 

Yes, that's really an old-fashioned payphone by the front door...

![RD0010Gallery.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/RMQGR2qn-RD-0010-Gallery.jpg)

This was another really nice art gallery, around the corner from our old location.

![RD0010Lighthouse.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/reddragonfly/7e2fgrGy-RD-0010-Lighthouse.jpg)

The Lighthouse Café is long gone, another victim of the end of the dine-out era, or so it seems.

I saw a number of other closed places on the rest of my drive to the Post Office, but all in all, this made me wonder how many times this is repeating, across the world? What's interesting is that so many of these were *"basic services,"* not something fancy.

Normally, this is a thriving seaside town... but with the tourists gone, none of the empty spaces are being re-leased and I have to wonder what will become of it all.

And so, I am thankful that I am no longer someone with a brick-and-mortar business!

How are things where YOU leave? Are you seeing a lot of business closures? Leave us a comment!

Thanks for reading!

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Society is going into hibernation.  This is so *weird.*
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Hibernation. 

That's a good word for it. And I have a feeling it's going to be a very *long* and very *cold* winter...
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Yeah.  And the only entertainment is watching people take sides and argue about what's happening.  
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