You Can’t Go Back Home
You can go back, but you can’t go back home. I don’t know how many Infolabbers still read this blog, but it looks like they are tearing down the old 1890 Maple, and putting up a Trader Joe’s. Not quite swapping paradise for a parking lot, but it still does kind of make me sad.
July 18th, 2008 at 02:56
“Grosse Pointe Blank” time!
“You can’t go home, but you can shop there.”
July 18th, 2008 at 03:30
Do I count since I had an office there while you were an Infolabber there? I never felt very attached to that particular building, but it was nice to have an office so close to home, and to hang out with the brilliant people that worked there.
-alain
July 18th, 2008 at 07:38
Of course you count Alain! In fact, given that you actually lived near there, you probably have a better claim than I do.
Evanston on the whole is changing so fast that people who currently live there probably don’t have it feel like home on a month by month basis.
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July 18th, 2008 at 10:42
If they knocked down the old RI at the U of C to put up a Trader Joe, I’d be sad for about 30 seconds, then I’d be all, “Mmmm, Trader Joe’s…”
July 20th, 2008 at 10:02
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
Also, now that I live all the way up here, that is pretty close too! I can just do a farmer’s market/trader joe’s run in one go!