TBH US is still a very young country. Europe is littered with buildings that are older than first European settlements in what is now US. So it looks a bit silly, at the same time, the constant change is why there’s nostalgia for things that have stayed constant at least for a little while.
Cracker Barrel was founded two months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. 56 years is a laughably short "heritage", by anyone's standards. Oh, and there are remains of structures here that also predate European settlement. See for example the Pueblo cliffs, or Cahokia Mound.
I meant, buildings that are still in active use. Yeah, 56 years is short, but doesn’t really negate the effect of nostalgia. Old enough to feel old unless you think about it.
Hey, it's not the Pueblo's fault that Europeans decided to decimate the population because they weren't Catholic.
That’s kinda off context, I guess every discussion can be turned into some kind of guilt trip about some atrocity. Buy that’s pretty useless for discussion. I am Finnish, back then my ancestors were being raided for slaves, by what is now Russia.