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''Part of my childhood died, just died.''|[[The Kinks]], "Come Dancing"}}
You know that big tree you used to play in as a kid? Well, [[Growing Up Sucks|you're twelve now]], so you're old enough for the '''Childhood Memory Demolition Team''' to arrive and tear it down to build a new suburb/highway/bypass/parking lot/skyscraper.
This Demolition is often planned when a character is about to leave their childhood. The Memory is usually a house, [[Orphanage of Love|an orphanage]], sometimes even a small apartment building. If it's a big tree, expect a bonus [[Green Aesop]]. Whatever it is, it has great emotional value to the protagonist and friends.
Expect the young protagonist to have flashbacks and then try to [[Saving the Orphanage|protest the demolition team]] with mixed results. Temporary hold-offs like chaining yourself to the tree and deception will at first appear not to work. Eventually, the Childhood Memory Demolition Team will give up due to [[The Power of Friendship]]
See also [[You Can't Go Home Again]], [[It's All Junk]], [[Death by Newbery Medal]] and [[End of an Age]].
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== Anime ==
* ''[[Candy Candy]]''. Subverted as the tree gets relocated to a rich guy whose hobby is tree climbing (no, not [[Michael Jackson|that one]]...)
* In the ''[[Magical Play]]'' episode "How Distant the Showa Era Has Grown," a group of kids, including the son of [[Magical Girl|Nononon's]] host family, Kazuhiko, go to play in a vacant lot, only to find it being bulldozed. The kids reveal to Nononon that this was the last vacant lot around, and now they have no place to play baseball. After they leave, Nononon uses her powers to create some ghosts that chase off the construction crew. The next morning, she excitedly brings Kazuhiko to the lot to show him what she's done, but the construction crew had come back by then.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Batteries Not Included (film)|Batteries Not Included]]''
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Harper's Woods in ''[[The Wonder Years]]''
* ''[[Night Gallery]]'', "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar".
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''. The tree is saved.
** Also an old theater. Which is saved.
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