Remembered Spaces

We carry with us footprints of vanished places; houses we moved out of years ago, ice cream stores like T&W (Terwilliger & Wakefield) that went out of business, bars like Espositos which stopped serving, neighborhoods where only the street names remain the same. This is the long gone geography of Ridgewood.

These were places, and I'm sure you all could add many more, we knew almost by intuition until they vanished, leaving behind only the strange sense of knowing our way around a world that no longer can be found.

Thanks to Verlyn Klinkenborg for the inspiration.