Thank you for stopping by! It is a beautiful old town! The older buildings seem to be built to withstand time and turn heads at the same time! 😊 I thought that price was reasonable for a spot on "Millionaire's Row". There are so many nice houses in Cairo! Thanks again for sharing and watching!
Very nice, informative video. Others have Cairo videos but each person brings their own perspectives to a place. I liked yours. Too bad about "D's Chicken" being closed. I was going to treat you to lunch there, then drop you off at Dollar General to shop while I waited across the road at the Carnegie Library to read about Alexander County history...(just joking....). So you got "bad vibrations" in Cairo? Yes, history is all gray, a mixture of progress and regression when it comes to human interactions. I too have received bad vibrations from places. The important thing is you were willing to explore even places where you felt uncomfortable. Strange the psychohistorical perspectives of a place like Cairo. Millionaires Row and (once) low income housing projects just down the road. Cairo, Ill. is like a mirror of the U.S. in many ways: black, white, and mainly gray...
@keith_holland Well, thank goodness that beautiful Queen Anne library is still open! It looks like I would have to shop at the Dollar General since there appears to be nowhere else to shop...for miles...until you get to the other Dollar General on the outside of town! BUT I looked online, and Cairo does have a community grocery store called Rise Market! They opened a little over a year ago, but already started struggling a few months later. Now, there are rumors they might close when barely being opened over a year. I wonder why? Well it's because their prices can't compete with the Dollar General! I'm not talking about monopolizing communities or anything, just the fact that many small grocery stores can't compete with a large chain that has over 20,000 stores in a country. Here's a link about the government funded grocery store, and it even mentions how locals keep shopping at the Dollar General due to prices. ipmnewsroom.org/the-government-spends-millions-in-food-deserts-to-open-grocery-stores-why-arent-they-surviving/ I could say more...much more but I appreciate the opportunity to rant a little bit about that "Dollar Store". I'm sad about Ds Chicken, but I'm taking note of the lunch treat comment and consider it a coupon in my back pocket! 😆...i did feel a little uncomfortable, but if I hadn't read the history and had that energy in my mind, I do not think I would have been. I'm glad you liked the video! I was hoping to receive more views like some of the others, but I know I'm still small and need to work on my video style and editing a little more but I don't want it to become a lot of work. I want to record history and there is a lot of ground to cover. Every day I feel like they are about to close the gate. How's that for some stream of consciousness? LOL...thank you for your support and watching! I appreciate you!
