Welcome back.
I think that it’s an outrage that there is no Jackie Rd. in your hometown, Goodlettsville. Should we start a write-in campaign?
Your post has a very familiar ring. The topic is a popular one in my town these days, farms turning into plats, dirt roads to freeways. We all have our melancholy stories relating to changes, or outright destruction of our youthful stomping grounds. But I bet those picnics were great fun.
BTW, were Bill’s prices fair?
Reading your post put this song in my head:

Our Town
by Iris DeMent

And you know the sun's settin' fast
and just like they say nothing good ever lasts
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye but hold on to your lover
'cause your heart's bound to die
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town
goodnight

Up the street beside that red neon light
that's where I met my baby on one hot summer night
He was the tender and I ordered a beer
It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here

But you know the sun's settin' fast …

It's here I had my baby's and I had my first kiss
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist
Over there is where I bought my first car
it turned over once but then it never went far

And I can see the sun settin' fast …

I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall
I bring them flowers about every day
but I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say

Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly
but I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes
I'm leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go
I love you my town, you'll always live in my soul

But I can see the sun's settin' fast …
Goodnight
Goodnight