I just downloaded some video off of my recorder and found this clip that I took of Ladyman’s Cafe after I ate there on the last day that it was open. I really wanted to take video inside the cafe, to capture the crowdedness, the bustle, the overwhelming sense that this place really did mean something more to people than the space it inhabited or the food it served. But doing that felt like it would have been disrespectful, and a few seconds of grainy video can’t really save what we as a community have allowed to slip away.