Heart of the City by Steenz for June 16, 2016
Transcript:
Mrs. Angelini: Oh, look at this. My old playground. Like time passed right over it. Mrs. Angelini: The swings, the slide, they're all different now. But the place, the school..it's all the same. Heart: It's kind of hard for me to imagine you as a little kid, running around the playground. Mrs. Angelini: And to me, it feels like yesterday.
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
Doesn’t that happens to everybody?
chassimmons about 8 years ago
Lucky the school is still there. The corporate war on the public schools is being waged vigorously in Philadelphia.
blunebottle about 8 years ago
My old elementary school made it to 100 years, now slated for demolition after they built the new one. I won’t actually miss it- too many painful memories.
Ubintold about 8 years ago
Let me know if they pass by a bocce court.
neatslob Premium Member about 8 years ago
Queue up the flashback?
Uncle Bob about 8 years ago
When my kids were young, I was able to drive them back to my schoolyard and let them play on the same stuff that was there when I was their age. It felt pretty cool. The school’s since gentrified the place, replacing the good stuff with “sanitized for your protection” equipment installed on foam rubber and the obligatory soccer field…
Bob. about 8 years ago
My high school is now an apartment complex. I guess I could rent my old chem lab.
It had two swimming pools and two basketball courts when I was in school. Hope they’re still there.
T_Lexi about 8 years ago
My elementary school is an apartment building. My middle school is city offices. My high school is bulldozed and relocated. Even my college dorm is gone, replaced by a lawn… [sigh]
Comic Minister Premium Member about 8 years ago
I see.
charliedawg about 8 years ago
my old elementry school is an office building.
What? Me worried ? about 8 years ago
My old grade 1-4 school is now a senor center !
Jim Kerner about 8 years ago
Memories, Memories.
cosman about 8 years ago
My K-6 school is stiil there, just closed down dur to lack of funding..sad. Great memories there.
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
No joke for this strip.