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11-24-2008, 10:23 PM
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Randolph, Oak, Boonsboro, and Peakland are hardly the outskirts. They are the real heart of Lynchburg for people who run and own the town, are doctors, engineers and professors. The baseball field is at ghetto central. So is most of the east side. I can rent you a nice home for $950- $1200.mo on the good side of town. You might feel better.
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11-25-2008, 05:57 AM
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Just curious, is E.C Glass High School and the local ABC affiliate situated in the “slum/ghetto”?
I guess outskirts can be a relative term. Boonsboro is not exactly close to central Lynchburg and Peakland, I have to admit I am don not remember properly what is included in this area, but if the tennis club is included, well that is just as far away from where most of Lynchburg is as Madison Heights.
As someone who probably fits into the white-collar definition (with a Masters degree) there are plenty of places where one can find a decent job and decent areas to live and work in. I did not experience that in Lynchburg. I am not saying others cannot.
“MR_Jonas” photos are exactly what I remember from my years in Lynchburg.
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11-25-2008, 12:00 PM
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Last edited by badger74; 11-25-2008 at 12:13 PM..
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11-25-2008, 12:05 PM
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Photos I just took while driving from my office to my home.
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What is wrong with those photos? When I was in Lynchburg last week, that is what it looked like. |
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11-25-2008, 12:46 PM
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EC Glass would be on the border. There are nice areas of home off Fort on the streets with the state names--Penn., Vermont etc. and that area goes east to Lynchburg College. Here're are some photos of homes just off Fort
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No need to start a war of pictures….but I could take plenty of more photos from areas that I pass through and see all the time 
I have never been to Seattle so I can not really say anything about that area. I would love to visit though.
What I can say though is that while I think I recognize one of those houses, since I live and work here (BTW, do you still live in Seattle or have you guys settled in Lynchburg now?) the images you post seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the Lynchburg I see and encounter, plain and simple.
I really do not think I live in a slum (I drive 20 minutes to get to work) and I really do not know what a “slum centered life” includes. If that includes watching soccer and the Sundance channel, planning for a trip to Europe and trying to interview Ian Rankin, sure slum life it is. You make it sound like I live in a shack sitting around blaming “the man” or “them” for everything. I do know that things I enjoy I mostly get a chance to do on the occasions when I leave this area. I would not call the photos I posted from the slum. They are from Lynchburg plain and simple. (Sure I could drive up to the golf course in New London, but that is hardly an area I pass though more then once every 24 months or so. )
I am a college educated guy who sits at a desk most of the workday and yes, I do would not put Lynchburg on my top 50 places I would live to live in. I am sorry about that. I have lived and worked here since 2002 so it is not like I just stumbled in and saw some tired houses on Campbell Ave and made up my mind once and for all on that one encounter with Lynchburg.
I know “my” Lynchburg cannot compete with your upper class areas. It is fascinating how I apparently did something wrong by just taking photos of a central area of this town, the same areas that see everyday. Reality does not have to be pretty, would be nice if that was the case.
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11-25-2008, 01:16 PM
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I have lived in this area most my life. No one here lives like that.
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11-25-2008, 06:42 PM
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Well, I have driven all those streets looking at homes to buy and those are certainly very representative of the homee off Fort that I named and other named after the states. I nearly bought one on Pennsylvania--two story all brick center entry colonial about two blocks east of Fort.
Mr Jonas, many people looking at Lynchburg are coming with enough money to buy a nice home on the west side. My pictures are all from Lynchburg too and are more evident of where people with any professional stature might look to live. I hardly ever even ventured over to the east side. There was no reason to go there. Next time I'm in town I'll have to take some street scenes from my side of town. It's much different but harder to find on-line..No, I'm not living there yet. My wife wants to wait a couple more years until her grandkids are older.
Virginia--drive over to my house on Peakland Place and tell me it looks ANTHING like those pictures of the industrial area. Take 501 to Boonsboro Rd east to Peakland and just drive around the area a bit. Up and down Link, Landhorne, Trents Ferry, and off on some of the side streets.
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11-26-2008, 08:25 AM
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Well, if anyone needs to go to the hospital, Lynchburg General is on this side of town. (Va Baptist Hospital is on your side of town but their focus is mental health, labor & delivery, children’s health etc, etc The cancer care is being shifted over here soon as well)
So are about 20 specialty clinics (Piedmont Eye center, Seven Hills Urology, etc).
So even if you do not need medical care, chances are you work here and drive past the areas in my photos.
The city Library and Carmike 8, still the main movie theatre in Lynchburg, till the new multiplex in the mall is finished.
Were I work we have smaller offices in Madison Heights and on Waterlick Rd (Forest).
When I drive to the Madison Heights location down Memorial Ave and 5th Street and then across the James River. Very little looks like your photos. When I drive Murrel Rd & lakeside drive up to the Forest location, very little looks like the two story minor mansions in your photos either. Obviously I need to come up with reasons to venture over to the rich side of town.
Yes, your images are from Lynchburg too. It seems this Lynchburg is in many ways hidden from many of us. I really do not think I am a “Slum dweller” or what ever term one should use. I have lived here for 6 years. The people I know are roughly 50/50 color/blue color workers. Most folks live in one story ranch houses. I know one medical doctor and yes, he seems to live in your neck of the woods. I know a professor that teaches political science at Liberty (makes 45.000 a year according to his son who is my age) and yes, his home is nice, but it hardly resembles “your” photos nor the house just mentioned medical doctor lives in.
Question, the folks that live in “your” Lynchburg do they actually work HERE or A.) come from wealthy backgrounds B.) they made their money in other parts of the country. I am trying to get a picture here.
(Two of the women that I work with are married to guys who work at Areva, supposedly the best employer in Lynchburg. Once again, they do not live in Boonsboro and their homes are brick ranch style homes.)
I know a lady up by the golf course in new London. One of the largest homes I have been in. her husband is a claims adjustor (larger accidents happens and he is shipped out to that area, so most of his field work is done outside Lynchburg) for some insurance company. His salary is based on what it costs to live in areas like Charlotte & Raleigh, NC and Northern Virginia were most of his colleagues live. If guys like him moves here they one heck of a back for their buck so to say.
Lot of questions and random thoughts.
I am just trying to make sense of Lynchburg, or mostly “your” side of town.
To me (and I doubt I am the only one) Lynchbur is what I see when we go to work, were we go to the movies, were we take our children to the Library, were we eat lunch. (Lynchburg’s best restaurant is Thai 99 behind the city Library. Strongly recommended and worth a visit “across the tracks”.)
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11-26-2008, 11:19 AM
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Hi rhere - well, at first I was shocked at these photos, I showed them to my husband who is a L'burg native and he was too, until I mentioned that you don't have a car. There are, as mentioned many beautiful areas of the city, I just don't know what your lifestyle requires. You might want to contact the chamber and some of the above sites to explore. I live in the "Grandin Village" area of Roanoke and there are apts. and since it is a "walk around" area there are many folks that have many amenities available - without a car. It is quaint and has apts., restaurants, movie theatre, grocery store, shops dentists etc. and the public bus system runs right down the main drag. You might want to check it out. Best of luck!!!
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11-26-2008, 12:06 PM
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Lynchburg's best restaurant is actually on the road from Big Island to Bedford-The Millstone Tearoom. But Thai 99 is fine and I have been there several times. The main hospital is right of Langhorne so driving there from my house means just going down a very beautiful Langhorne for the most part. The area around the hospital is fine with all the medical office buildings. It does go into an older less nice area after that as you get to EC Glass but it's still like any average commercial street in most any older US town. Not good nor bad. We also were regulars at the main library--I hope they get a newer larger one soon but it does the job adequately.
http://www.millstonetearoom.com/uplo...NERWeekend.pdf
The following recommended restaurants are a 30-minute drive from the B&B:
**The Millstone Tea Room
9058 Big Island Highway
Route 122, Sedalia, VA
(540) 587-7100
Wed-Sun 5:30pm Sun Brunch 11:30am-3pm
millstonetearoom1939.com
"The best kept secret in town." --News & Advance. Jared and Melanie Srsic create the best food in the 'country.' A New American Style; like nothing else around. Handmade, in-house bread and pastry. Millstone supports local produce and sustainable fisheries.
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