#route198

Taking a page from the Millennials playbook, Boomers are beginning to get in on the historical preservationist train. “The passion that the younger generation has for preserving history is infectious!,” said my mom wearing white capri pants.

Pushing her sunglasses on top of her head, she continued, “It is a shame we couldn’t save the Bachelor building from being torn down. What we learned from this is that it is better to have a pre-emptive Shock and Awe campaign and preserve areas that might be under threat in the future now, before anyone wants to develop them into a parking lot. To that end, we are working on getting the 198 declared a historic landmark.”

Confused, I went to Tim Horton’s and bought my mom a single-single senior half-caf and brought it over to her house to find out more.

“It use to be that you could drive a suggested 50 miles per hour on the highway, but then there was that single-event that got the Parkside Association up in arms and now we can only go 30 miles per hour—which I like, you can really see the original statue of David when you go slower,” she said with a cheeky grin on her face. “But I’ve heard rumblings that some people want this historic road to be paved over. Wait, no…what would you call it? Unpaved? Anyway, you catch my drift—there is talk about turning the entire thing into a park again. This seems like madness. They are just finishing those beautiful new on/off ramps for the Elmwood exit. If they take away the 198, how can I find the Elmwood?”