In a message dated 5/5/98 6:01:54 AM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:

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>  There's a great song about nostalgia for the old dimestore, actually a
>  Woolworth's, written by Nancy Griffith.

It's strange that there is an interesting tension between nostalgia and
historic preservation.  Songs like this one are testimony to the cultural
importance of the buildings, the experience of institutions like the 5&10. Yet
this same emotional connection -- this nostalgia -- is regarded as a hindrance
to redevelopment efforts that include, even feature, historic preservation.
Nostalgia is looked on as a pickling agent, I suppose, rather than a binder.
And of course "You can't pickle a city," as Ada would say.

Mary