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It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been back to my hometown of Lake Placid, New York. On a recent FaceTime conversation with my mother, she was telling me about some of the changes in town. Apparently, the Gap store has been replaced by an arcade. She believed the long-time empty shop, advertising ‘Gifts and Ammo,’ had been sold.
The latter has always intrigued me. Why was this valuable real estate abandoned for decades, its visible interior seemingly unchanged?