Record Stores, Used Bookstores, Cat Cafes, Camera Shops, Computer Stores, A weirdly cheap brunch place that is also a gay(?) karaoke bar, Thrift and Consignment Shops, A doo woop shop, Salons, shops that sell boba tea
These are things you can find on a vibrant commercial corridor in a midsized American city
But something tragic happened to these places, many of them no longer exist! They died in the 70s alongside the urban cores of the city’s they inhabited, never getting the chance to be graced by boba tea and cat cafes. This had many causes but the main ones were of course the cause of many of the problems in America, Suburbanisation.
