I have a neighbor who is over 90 and he was born downtown. Do you know why the old DC theaters had 2 screens? Why does the Uptown have a floor level and a balcony? It's vile, and I never even realized it until he pointed it out.
I'm not quite 90
but I remember those days. A co-worker of mine (AA) and I were looking at my HS yearbooks online. We had a lot of diversity in the old steel mill towns ... Asian, white, black, Latin, etc. He looked at me with surprise and said, "You went to school with black kids? I never went to school with a white kid 'til the 8th grade." We were both kind of shocked by that.
