I genuinely suspect that they are empty--if they have not been paved over completely.posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 3:46 PM on July 24, 2012 [44 favorites] Kurt Andersen (mostly) agrees with your friend, The past is a foreign country, but the recent past???the 00s, the 90s, even a lot of the 80s???looks almost identical to the present.