The term downtown makes me picture a place that is older and close together where everything requires parallel parking, meter tickets and tourists walking up and down the sidewalks. Over time it seems as if people have moved away from the city life and prefer to live on lots of their own acreage or in a gated community. In fort myers everything now is either a tourist shop or a lawyers office rather than where people used to live. As we walked around to observe what was around fort myers we came across this sign saying the first concrete sidewalks were constructed in 1906. We learned that the roads used to me made of brick as well. We also had to visit the Southwest Florida Museum of History which did a great job encasing the timeline of what went on in Fort Myers all the way from paleolithic times to present day. As for the change in economy, it is now very heavily reliant on tourism but back in the day it was surrounded by farms and cattle that supported a lot of the local people.