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Yong’anli Men's Nike Air Jordan 1 Mid Obsidian Royal Blue For Sale , a community located in east Beijing between the prosperous Jianguomen shopping district on the second ring road and the Guomao CBD on the third, accommodates hundreds of seniors with their decades-long memories. The community of Yong’anli was built in the 1950s, originally for the settlement of residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the Tian’anmen square and the Great Hall of People. It was named “Yong’anli”(永安里) for “a prosperous and contented life forever”. Before 1950, the place was a vegetable garden called “Qijiayuan”. Surrounded by high-rise buildings, Yong’an Dongli looks old and shabby. Small restaurants line densely upon narrow streets Men's Air Jordan 1 Retro Low Anti-Fur All Black For Sale , catering employees in the nearby CBD skyscrapers. The elderly, who were relocated half a century ago from the heart of the capital to the then wilderness, takes up 80% of the community’s population. Today as the CBD flourishes, they may face the fate of moving again. Shen Jinghua, 92 Men's Nike Air Jordan 1 Low Win Like 96 University Red For Sale , left her hometown Tianjin before Liberation. She settled down in Beijing with her husband and had been living in Yong’anli for more than 40 years. Shen lives alone, making a living by sewing clothes. Her husband had passed away for a long time with no children left. To treat his disease, she spent most of her savings, she said. She had only 8 yuan with herself when he died. Shen used to help babysit when she was younger. In her 30 years’ experience as a babysitter, a girl named Nana impressed her most. “Nana was sick when she came. I looked after her and she was soon recovered Air Jordan 1 Phat Black Carbon Fiber For Sale ,” Shen said. However, three years later Nana’s mother brought her away and never came back. Now there are still photos of Nana hanging on the wall at Shen’s home. “Babysitting is a heart-breaking job”, Shen said. Huang Xiuping and Gu Guojun are both 85 years old. They recalled that the building in which they live were originally a makeshift project with a service life of merely 15 years, but they have been living here for more than 60 years already. The apartment used to house 7 people: four children and a senior parent besides the couple. When it was too hot in the summer, the family just lay down and let the paddle fan run in the above. It was harsh life Women's Nike Air Jordan 1 High Zip TRIPLE WHITE For Sale , but family members were closer to each other, Huang said. 81-year-old Guo Zhenhua reproached himself often since his wife fell victim to senile dementia five years ago. He blamed himself for not having enough chats with her when she was healthy. Now he could only look at her and revive memories of their younger days himself. Guo used to be a carpenter. He made every single piece of furniture in the apartment. Guo turns up his nose at furniture in the market today, for they are “not produced with exquisite workmanship”. But his children threw away most of the furniture he built as they got old, leaving only several wood stools he made about 40 years ago. Ding Xiulan, 80 Women's Nike Air Jordan 1 Rebel XX Moon Particle Phantom For Sale , runs a small shop selling cigarettes and drinks in a one-story house she built with her own money. Many residents built such bungalows in the community, some as an extra room for a family too large, some as a contemporary shelter after the shock of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake. Most of the shacks still host dwellers today. Ding’s old ashtray has already accompanied her for more than 40 years. She’d like to release herself with smoking every time when she felt depressed. Ding’s husband died in 1984. She raised their five children alone by running the shop and letting out another bungalow she built. “I’ll keep working as long as I can still move. I don’t want to bring any trouble to my children,” she said. Xu Yueping sold homemade noodles and dumplings in her own restaurant “Dama Noodles and Dumplings” (“Dama” means middle-aged woman in Chinese). She started the business 12 years ago when she was 66 to make money for her husband, who was diagnosed with renal failure. Now her husband was gone Nike Air Jordan 1 Rebel Chicago White Varsity Red For Sale , but the restaurant became increasingly popular. It is often packed with people and Xu said she could sell almost 20 kg noodles each day simply during lunch time. But Xu said she preferred to spend more time with her two children and their children. “I’m old after all,” she said. Tian Shuzhen was married into this 25-square-meter apartment in 1975, where 11 people of her husband Yin Dehe’s famliy were squeezed in. 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