Sun News (Kansas City, Mo.) Sports Writer

Kinda sad, too. I can remember afternoons of my youth spent begging the parents for 50 cents to blow in Aladdin's Castle. It's also where me and the old man engaged in many an epic dome-hockey war at Showbiz (nee Chuck E. Cheese). I lived about 3 mins away from there until 6th grade.

 

If only you two could have told us these tales with Bruce Springsteen's "My Hometown" playing in the background ...

 

I'll echo the sentiments. But Antioch actually is getting torn down to put in a nicer, outdoor-type shopping center.

 

... In `65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown, my hometown, my hometown ...