I always spend a little time, downtown, when I take my little trips through Rayne... because thats where I grew up...the sights of the downtown area were my landscape. So, as I always do...I choose a spot and I park..and I take in the ambiance of the place I called home, will call home, forever! I was so impressed to see the downtown area, a flurry of activity. It warmed my heart to see Louisiana Avenue filled with cars...no room to park in the MK block...Im sure that there was an event at The Crossing...but the sight took me back to another time..when Saturdays were always a busy time for the downtown...When the weeks shopping was done, and some good visiting was accomplished. For no shopping trip was complete without some good conversation with the ladies at Mervines or Weills..Peoples or Worthmores....And as I sat, taking in the sights of todays Rayne..I was reminded of one of my favorite sights from my youth...the children that gathered on Saturday afternoons at The Joy Theater..I remember watching them as they arrived on bikes, on foot, and being dropped off by their parents... I see freckled face boys, and their innocent horseplay.. I see knee-socked girls, in pig tails, giggling and whispering...about the boys Im sure....I see mothers dropping off their precious cargo, then crossing the tracks, to find a place to park and begin their afternoon of shopping...I see those 60-something vehicles, lined up along the storefronts....with gracious and well dressed ladies, exiting, handbags at the ready, as they went about their appointed rounds...only to exit sometime later with brown paper bags and MK boxes... I see chance sidewalk conversations, animated and happy. I see it all..like it were yesterday. But then, in my mind....it was~
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:02:57 +0000
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