I grew up in a entirely small village that had not been updated in decades.
Our grocery store was still largely the same since it was built in the 1950s.
If you wanted the experience of going back in time, all you needed to do was visit our city, but when I brought back a acquaintance to visit from college one time, they were shocked at how old everything in the neighborhood was. The bowling alley had a roof that leaked and arcade games that had been installed in the early 1980s. When I was growing up, it was even worse here. There was never anything to do for anybody under the age of 40. And once you hit the age of 21, you would likely go to activitys bars and get drunk with friends. Back in the afternoon my associate and I had a laundromat with the oldest machines inside. It was luckyly fairly cheap to do laundry there because of how old all of the amenities were. I had to go to that laundromat for a solid year when my parents couldn’t afford to update our clothes dryer. It broke down and my associate and I didn’t have room outside to put up clothes lines. I would take all of our loads wet over to the laundromat to dry them. The worst thing about that laundromat was the lack of any heating or cooling. I lived in an part with fairly extreme seasons year-round. In the winter season and Autumn season, it would get entirely cold outside and my associate and I would feel it inside the laundromat. I easily suppose the cold temperatures made it take longer for the clothing to dry. And then once the late Springtime and early Summer rolled around, temperatures would get excruciatingly tepid outside. These afternoons I live in a place with newer built dealers and laundromats that all have heating and cooling inside.