The City as a Market Place: A Panoramic View of Kingston

As Old as Time

What are your fondest memories of Kingston or the city you live in?
 Mine are all from Christmas, the decorated stores, the lights strung up in the plazas each competing with their version of the nativity seen or Christmas tree with gifts underneath.  The streets lined with vendors trying to make the last sale before they have to pack up.  The smell of melting cotton candy, roasted peanut, jerk chicken and exploded fire crackers.
How about the smell of fruits soaking in wine, freshly baked Christmas cakes soaked in rum and the sorrel-ginger wine.  I remember the smell of newness; fresh curtains hung at the windows, a new coat of paint or white wash on the wall. Christmas carols playing over the radio or television as early as November, children getting excited for the new toy they will get, the new Susie Dolly or G-I Joe.

But what about those changes over time, have you noticed the changes that are happening in our city over the years? Have those changes eroded your fond memories? Or have you made new ones?