Serious question, the old pier at Lake Geneva looked completely different last weekend

I went for a walk there on Saturday morning and saw they'd torn down the whole middle section, just leaving the concrete pilings sticking up like broken teeth. It made me realize that spot where my grandpa taught me to fish is literally gone now, not just changed in my memory. Has anyone else had a place from their past physically disappear like that?

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jennifer83325d ago

Read a whole article on this, it's so sad.

spencer78225d ago

Yeah, it really is. Karen_sanchez49 hit on something true about those quiet spots on the map. It's not just the big landmarks, but the boring spots too, like the parking lot where you learned to drive or a specific tree in a park. Those places hold tiny pieces of your story, and when they're gone, it's like a piece of your own proof is erased. The world feels a bit more generic and a bit less yours every time it happens.

karen_sanchez4925d ago

It feels like this keeps happening more and more, where the real places that hold our memories get replaced or just removed. I notice it with local diners and small shops closing down too. It leaves a strange quiet spot on the map where your personal history used to be.