Name: What if gentrification...
Uploaded: 2025-11-04
Description: And if you haven't experienced this, then I'm going to ask you to try and imagine your way into it right now. Think about what it would be like to find your favorite local spot, a place where you often went and hung out with the old-timers or your friends, had vanished.

Joe Jamail

By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.

American Businessman

Julia Fox

I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the landmarks of my childhood are gone. I do kind of feel like a bitter old-timer, like, 'These kids don't know what it was like.

Italian Actress

Randy Savage

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

American Wrestler

Mary Douglas

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

British Scientist

Herb Alpert

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

American Musician

Tom Waits

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Ricky Steamboat

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

American Writer

Dr. John

The old-timers schooled me good. They brainwashed me to respect music, whether we were playing rockabilly or blues or rock and roll.

Franklin P. Jones

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

American Journalist

Keith Whitley

I learned to do things the way the old-timers did.

American Singer

Used to emphasize the wisdom or skill gained through long involvement in a field.

Experience Matters

Carries a nuance of respect; implies the person's experience is valuable.

Respect Implied

More about depth of experience than simply being old or elderly.

Not Just Age

Often have knowledge of local history or how a place has changed over time.

Local History

May be seen as pillars of the community and sources of tradition.

Community Pillars

Indicates a cultural or generational gap, sometimes suggesting outdated practices or beliefs.

Cultural Gap

Can be used affectionately or humorously when referring to someone's old-fashioned ways.

Affectionate Use

 And if you haven't experienced this, then I'm going to ask you to try and imagine your way into it right now. Think about what it would be like to find your favorite local spot, a place where you often went and hung out with the old-timers or your friends, had vanished.

What if gentrification...

 there's something that really grabs you something you really care about and you should go do it go do it now and I managed to get taught by the last of the old-timers who had done it every day in their life and they passed it on you

Old-timer

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