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ProfessorGAC

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3. Just Before I Retired...

Reply to marble falls (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 23, 2025, 02:29 PM

18 hrs ago

...I had to go provide some technical assistance to a mid-size customer with a plant in Akron.
All industry around there, so I thought things were happening.
Then, I left for lunch with a couple of their engineers and as we moved toward downtown there was no there, there.
Dozens of close up businesses, vacant lots....
I don't know the area that well, but I was surprised.

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Pretenders - My City Was Gone [View all] marble falls Sunday OP

Even the shopping malls are gone Diamond_Dog Sunday #1

It's my story. Went back to Akron and the downtown was gone. Really. marble falls Sunday #2

Just Before I Retired... ProfessorGAC 18 hrs ago #3

They took the only corner with active businesses that stretched down S Main to Exchange street and tore it up for ... marble falls 16 hrs ago #4