The Anomaly of Southgate

Yesterday during my lunch hour I decided that I needed to get a couple of chores done. I had to go to the bank, dry cleaners, get a couple of greeting cards, and find something to eat for lunch. That's a lot of running around for one lunch hour, especially in a neighborhood I'm not that familiar with. Right down Union Road is Southgate plaza www.southgateplaza.com, an anomaly during a time when you don't see plazas like that anymore. It's like stepping back into the late 60's, early 70's. It's a really large plaza with no vacant storefronts and it's not an outlet mall. The parking lot was pretty full and there are major chain stores there, in an old suburban plaza. Stores like New York and Company and Bath & Body Works. I got everything done that I needed to tend to, this is not interesting. I just found it strange was all.