Our World-All in One Place
by Charlotte Bennardo The setting: our teen hangouts... Photo by Helena Jankovičová Kováčová: https://www.pexels.com/photo/commercial-parking-lot-with-modern-cars-30845615/ Yep, the parking lot of the one major strip mall we had in town. (Above picture is not it). Why? Because I grew up on the eastern end of Long Island, and at that time, there were more farm fields than anything else. We were the first class to graduate 100 seniors in a school that went from kindergarten to senior high in one school , except for fourth graders who went to a small nearby school. One elementary school was actually a one-room schoolhouse. Back to the strip mall. It had the movie theater, the best pizza place, a small department store, the grocery store, liquor store (not that we could get anything), and lots of space for everyone to park and meet up. The motorheads showed off their cars, the townies hit the bowling alley across the street, and people like me walked to the Dairy Queen the...
