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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
You're putting words into my mouth. All I have said is that in a changing world I can still look for the positives rather than focusing on the negatives.
If you think that this mythical 1970s version of Broadway is ever going to come back then I'm afraid you're mistaken. Shopping habits have changed drastically.
If Broadway was so perfect before why am I hearing tales of complaints about a concrete monstrosity that many people were glad to see the back of? I'm not the only one with rose tinted specs, it seems.
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"shopping habits have changed"...the same old tired cliches trotted out. Do me a favour, Ken, get in your car and drive ten miles south to Bury and tell me why shopping habits haven't changed there?
"a concrete monstrosity"...I assume you're talking about the umbrella market? Looking it at purely from an architectural point of view, it was actually a masterpiece of Modernist Architecture (take a look at aerial shots of the roof and see how well-designed it is) and is mentioned in a couple of books on the subject. Whatever, it's certainly better than the cheap, toytown, mock-Victoriana "pavillions" that took its place.
"that many people were glad to see the back of"...funny that, because this old "monstrosity" was invariably busy with shoppers on market days, unlike its replacement which is semi-deserted most of the time. So where have all these people who were glad to see the back of it gone?