As you know, they’ve torn down

This was one of our first strip malls, on Lynn Garden Drive, when it was still the main way to Gate City.  Had a Grant’s…had a Kroger…had my stepbrother’s barbershop.  It even had a decent common area:

Those trees in back, striving for the sunlight, survived, I hope.  Probably just bulldozed over, though.  All compound things are impermanent.