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[[File:onion news465.jpg|frame|You'll never see that tree again. Muhahahahaha.]]
▲{{quote|''The day they knocked down the palais''
''My sister stood and cried.''
''The day they knocked down the
''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.
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== [[Music]] ==
* Happens in [[Styx]]'s 1980 album ''Paradise Theatre'' during the instrumental break on "Halfpenny, Twopenny." If you listen very carefully, you can hear the sounds of the demolition crew setting up and a few people having fond memories of the place over the bassline, the piano, and a bell tolling a death-knell. This is set up in the song "Lonely People", where a voice at the beginning says, "I tell you, Irma...I can't wait until they tear that damn old theater down."
* Naturally, this is mentioned in the extended version of ''Photograph'' by [[Nickleback]], [[Department of Redundancy Department|albeit only in the extended version.]]
{{quote|''Remember the old arcade
''blew every dollar that we ever made
''the cops hated us hanging out
''they say somebody went and burned it down }}
* "Big Yellow Taxi". They "paved paradise and put up a parking lot," although the song doesn't really specify what place the narrator was referring to as paradise.
* "Come Dancing" by [[The Kinks]] is about the singer remembering the old dance hall and how his sister spent her adolesence going to it. A variant, as it's someone ''else's'' childhood memories lost.
* "Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back" by Billy Edd Wheeler is a sentimental song involving this trope. It's an unusual example, as it's referring to an outhouse.
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* One episode of the ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' cartoon centered around Lydia trying to save a tree she loved from being cut down to make room for a highway. When chaining herself to the tree doesn't work, she gets Beetlejuice to scare away the construction workers. When ''that'' doesn't work, Beetlejuice gets a magic rope from the Neitherworld to bring the tree to life. The tree then it quite literally gets up and walks to the playground, where it replants itself and becomes very happy when all the children start playing on and around it.
* In the [[Christmas Special]] ''The Christmas Tree'', Mrs. Mavilda, the owner of an orphanage, plans to cut down a huge evergreen tree on the grounds, mostly because the orphans like to play around it and she wants to keep them from going outside (she gambled away the money the town donated to buy them new clothes). What she doesn't know is that the orphans believe the tree is magical and even named it Mrs. Hopewell. When the guy Mrs. Mavilda hired to do the deed shows up, her assistant, Mrs. Kindle, and the orphans stand in front of the tree, refusing to let it be cut down. Fortunately, the mayor happens to show up and puts a stop to the tree-cutting. He even makes the tree a piece of town property so that it can never be cut down, and makes it the official town Christmas Tree.
* There was an episode of ''[[Doug]]'' where Doug and some other boys were throwing rocks at some old houses that were about to be demolished. Doug got a lucky shot in and not just broke a window, but flattened a whole house. The guys were impressed, but his crush, Patty told him he was "terrible". It's revealed her family used to live in that house when she was little and her mom was still alive.
{{reflist}}
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