Many of you may know where this is, while others do not. It's a couple hours drive from where we live, but if I had to, I'd be hard-pressed to drive to this building by memory. It's a picture of Tiger Town. I'm sure you can find many "Tiger Towns" all across the country, as well as the name for the first film made for the newly-founded Disney Channel in 1983.
This particular Tiger Town is in an older part of town, smaller yards and even smaller homes. Decade's-old trees dot the landscape, many evergreens because the winters can be brutal in this part of the country. Behind the homes's front doors are newlywed couples living in their first houses, multi-generational families living together to make ends meet, and elderly citizens who have lived on the same street their entire lives...just like millions of other neighborhoods all across the country.
It's summer. Had it been fall, winter, or spring, I'd expect to see cars and trucks of various makes, models, and ages filled with high school students either arriving or departing...or playing hooky. Maybe friends would walk the grounds of Tiger Town talking about movies, music, or which students they think are cute.
It's like so many other streets, other buildings, other places where people live. As I snapped the pictures I wondered if anyone saw me taking photos of a building they know so very well, a building that's been part of their lives either for a short time, or for their entire lives.
Even though I didn't grow up in Tiger Town, I can understand the feeling the locals have for their community. Because I've felt it, too...
Just a couple of hundred miles south.
It's a cool older building full of memories...Tiger Town memories.
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