And to peel another layer off this nostalgia trip.
Ok, lets suppose rats aren't dragging pizza home in the city anymore [1]
While the people that ran and frequented the "back-alley restaurants and shops, dive bars and ice cream parlors" might be busy raising kids and saving for retirement, there's a new generation of people doing the same carefree shit we all did when we used to be cool.
What was Harvard Sqr became Davis which is now Malden.