Da boyz let me sleep in this morning, dunno why but it was appreciated ‘cuz I stayed up late last nite watching one of those old ‘sappy’ holiday movies....it wudn’t sappy enuff to bring Millyrose to tears (my bad) but it did keep us up almost ‘til midnite....Gahd! That use’ta be the shank of the evening ‘n how old does using the phrase ‘shank of the evening’ make me....
So the nooze on FB this third day of Christmas was the conflagration in South Shore that took out S.M.Roberson’s store...
dunno which direction South Shore will go from here but t’will be interesting to see....well, they gotta go up or down, that’s the nature of things....Portsmouth, Ohio was a thriving city at one time in a beautiful location at the confluence of the Scioto ‘n Ohio Rivers but it’s been down-sizing for years ‘n if it keeps on in that direction, it’ll become a village before too long....South Shore ain’t near as old as Portsmouth but it’s been around for most of the Twentieth Century (which means most of my lifetime) and has a remarkably static population in terms of size....
The Corner (as it has been known f’ever) has been the epicenter of South Shore s’long as I can remember ‘n with the demise of Roberson’s will be forever changed....
T’is an opportunity for the citizens of South Shore to ressurect ‘n rebuild, redevelop if you will ‘n turn South Shore into a Twenty-first Century village with a future or let it spiral ever backward to be the wide spot by the river that it was in olden dayz.....life always presents us with a choice but the choice is always our own no matter the outcome....
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