The Imperial Buffet is being demolished today, after a devastating fire.
It brought back a memory from a few years back.
One day I was at the mail store next door, when suddenly dozens of Asian tourists came out of the restaurant and decided to start taking selfies before getting back on the bus. Something about the scenery really excited and amused them. I turned to another American and we both said, "What could they possibly be taking pictures of?" For Americans, this stretch of Peach Street was pretty homely.
I looked around and I think I figured it out. Car culture. Look south and it's car lots and a river of multi-lane of traffic as far as you can see. Across the street and to the north, parking lots and a river of traffic going the other way.
I don't know if that was going on, as they were speaking in their own language so my nosiness was thwarted. But that's a pretty uninteresting stretch except as a shining example of what US car culture does to the scenery.
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