bygone days

And the street names — Strada Karl Marx, Strada Yuri Gagarin — hark back to bygone days of Soviet glory.

“I said all this not to wax poetic about bygone days, but because of the story of my family’s journey. Those who left and those who stayed is emblematic of the stories of so many Irish and American families, not just Irish American families.”

My father, who died two years ago at 95, was a typical Japanese salary man of the bygone days: hard-working, stoic and taciturn.

There are no real demons here, only those insubstantial ones from bygone days — unforgiven betrayals, old jealousies, unforgotten guilt — that bedevil the present.

His 39-year career is a window into local TV news’ bygone days.