Forty-three-year-old Yang Ming-chao remembers that when he was in junior high school, before the main road on the island was called Yenping North Road, asphalt had been paved only in the center of the road and the two sides were yellow earth. At dusk every evening, the neighbors would bring straw mats to the side of the road and chat in the cool air.
四十三歲的楊明照記得，他讀中學以前，還未被稱為延平北路的馬路，柏油只鋪路中央，兩旁都是黃土地，每到黃昏，左鄰右舍把草席墊在路旁，坐在上面「消涼」、聊天。