Update 10/27/2016: Springfield, MO recently lost its last Heritage Cafeteria due to the children of the owner not wanting to work it, not because the cafe was losing money. This has left older Springfieldians (of The Greatest Generation) without a place to hang out, making my idea here even more valuable and profitable for our community.
The Old Folks Cafe, or possibly now The New Newspaper Cafe (working on the name), is my concept for creating a location primarily for older people to go and hang out but also, at times, be a drawing point for the younger generations to come to visit and co-mingle with these grandparents in order to help preserve our American heritage and to help educate the younger generations of common human mistakes, faults, and tendencies which younger people may feel are unique to them but are in fact shared by all. This kind of communion with one another is a thing which has been largely lost between families as it has been a standard practice I have witnessed for families to separate themselves from one another in different households, sometimes states away. And this separation hasn't been due to any reason for wanting to move away from family and friends but has been a kind of necessary evil due to the standard practices involved with higher education and finding employment (careers are practically a thing of the past).
Expand on the idea of having a store that is a place where people can go to immerse theirselves in old technologies. Reel to reel, tapes, record. I don't know how this place makes money. The younger generation should be writing stories about their grand parents and their parents as a kind of thing. I mean, interview, biography, and done, that would sell. Also, the old folks cafe will have guest speakers old for young and young for old. Mix them up. But the setting, the environment should be more comfortable for older people, they should feel like they're reliving their youth just walking through the store.
The Old Folks Cafe, or possibly now The New Newspaper Cafe (working on the name), is my concept for creating a location primarily for older people to go and hang out but also, at times, be a drawing point for the younger generations to come to visit and co-mingle with these grandparents in order to help preserve our American heritage and to help educate the younger generations of common human mistakes, faults, and tendencies which younger people may feel are unique to them but are in fact shared by all. This kind of communion with one another is a thing which has been largely lost between families as it has been a standard practice I have witnessed for families to separate themselves from one another in different households, sometimes states away. And this separation hasn't been due to any reason for wanting to move away from family and friends but has been a kind of necessary evil due to the standard practices involved with higher education and finding employment (careers are practically a thing of the past).
Expand on the idea of having a store that is a place where people can go to immerse theirselves in old technologies. Reel to reel, tapes, record. I don't know how this place makes money. The younger generation should be writing stories about their grand parents and their parents as a kind of thing. I mean, interview, biography, and done, that would sell. Also, the old folks cafe will have guest speakers old for young and young for old. Mix them up. But the setting, the environment should be more comfortable for older people, they should feel like they're reliving their youth just walking through the store.