“We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past,
but by the love we’re not extending in the present.”
~ Marianne Williamson
On one end of my street is the Southland destruction I’ve been posting. On the other end sits the remains of Turfland Mall. Most of it has been torn down by now, but the old Dillard’s store remains, or at least its guts do. It’s being repurposed as UK Clinic South (the building of City Barbecue in the foreground). Stacy noticed yesterday the old McAlpin’s sign beneath the faux exterior. McAlpin’s, like Shillito’s, was the premier department store in Central Kentucky for decades. One of the first jobs I had when I came to Lexington in the early 1980’s was decorating Christmas trees in their Lexington Mall location (that mall was destroyed a few years ago to make way for Southland Christian Church’s second location). It was good to see a bit of the past peeking through. It made Stacy smile, too.
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