Most of the office buildings look empty or decayed while the parks look well kept and the number of visitors showed the amount of interest folks had in them. The day had been spent in Binghamton. The small town is tucked away near the border of New York. In its heyday, the streets were littered with young men in blue suits and ties with a lot of green in their wallets. Years before IBM, Endicott Johnson Shoes kept the town humming, and because of the lonely childhood of the company's owner, the area has a wonderful supply of parks for the town's children.
All rides are free.
The deal is for each child to pick up trash in the park and they may ride as much as they like. Mr. Johnson, the company owner, wanted to make sure the poorest child could ride as often as he or she wished. Needless to say the parks in the area are very clean. With increasing pressure from overseas markets, Mr. Johnson's company began to downsize until almost nothing was left. His parks and the small town of Johnson City are but a memory of the huge business he once mastered.