I daresay not dead.

Something like the old watering hole you get drunk in during the heydays... then getting out of town for years, then you come back and walks about and sees the sign, re-enters hoping you will see familiar faces, first and foremost, and new drink mixes on the bar that you might want to sample.

Plenty to learn from here when we were younger, but nowadays, just a few pickings, perhaps. ..because we learned more later and this is where we started off.