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Olde Towne. Seems more of a intimate neighborhood feel. Probably due to the fenced yards and numerous trees. The narrower road helps in that factor as well.
Two Cities 30 miles apart
West End neighborhood between a Hospital Complex and the Minor League Baseball Stadium in Winston-Salem NC.
Loved the DC Streetcar with the Pride wrap in the H Street view. And the way Richmond built its BRT along Broad Street is interesting; it's a throwback to the days when trolley tracks ran in the middle of the street, not along the curb as they do on H Street.
These two streetscapes are very close to each other in appearance. Broad Street in Richmond looks just a little more densely built (slightly taller buildings). The big difference, IMO: The trees have matured on Broad Street while they're still young on H Street. That tips the scale in Broad Street's favor. Maybe things might look different when the trees have grown taller on H Street.
But since we have a Broad Street to contemplate here, let's start a round-robin Broad Street tournament. Let's put Richmond's up against another one in its weight class:
Broad and Foushee streets, Richmond, Va. (the starting point above)
*You can find evidence of the decline of American newspapers in this street view. Continue east on Broad Street, the direction in which I pointed you, and about midway down the block, opposite the entrance to the Ohio State Capitol, you should see a small four-story building with the legend The Columbus Dispatch over its door. Pan to the right at this point and you should see a sign rising above the trees reading "Dispatch – Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper – 151 Years of Service." (The Dispatch was indeed 151 when the Street View cars last rolled down Broad Street in Columbus in the fall of 2022. The sign is still updated each year.)
That building is the former home of the Dispatch. It now houses the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Chances are that if you live in a sizable city, your local major daily has similarly downsized its headquarters. (The Philadelphia Police Department and the School District of Philadelphia now occupy The Philadelphia Inquirer's former home, while the newspaper's offices are now on the third floor of a former departmenht store.)
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Loved the DC Streetcar with the Pride wrap in the H Street view. And the way Richmond built its BRT along Broad Street is interesting; it's a throwback to the days when trolley tracks ran in the middle of the street, not along the curb as they do on H Street.
These two streetscapes are very close to each other in appearance. Broad Street in Richmond looks just a little more densely built (slightly taller buildings). The big difference, IMO: The trees have matured on Broad Street while they're still young on H Street. That tips the scale in Broad Street's favor. Maybe things might look different when the trees have grown taller on H Street.
But since we have a Broad Street to contemplate here, let's start a round-robin Broad Street tournament. Let's put Richmond's up against another one in its weight class:
Broad and Foushee streets, Richmond, Va. (the starting point above)
*You can find evidence of the decline of American newspapers in this street view. Continue east on Broad Street, the direction in which I pointed you, and about midway down the block, opposite the entrance to the Ohio State Capitol, you should see a small four-story building with the legend The Columbus Dispatch over its door. Pan to the right at this point and you should see a sign rising above the trees reading "Dispatch – Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper – 151 Years of Service." (The Dispatch was indeed 151 when the Street View cars last rolled down Broad Street in Columbus in the fall of 2022. The sign is still updated each year.)
That building is the former home of the Dispatch. It now houses the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Chances are that if you live in a sizable city, your local major daily has similarly downsized its headquarters. (The Philadelphia Police Department and the School District of Philadelphia now occupy The Philadelphia Inquirer's former home, while the newspaper's offices are now on the third floor of a former departmenht store.)
I'll go with Richmond here, due to the architecture and the color from the street and murals in the neighborhood.
The scenery in Wallace is a bit more striking with the steeper and closer-in mountains, so that's my pick. I've been there only briefly, at night, and didn't notice that I-90 through town is elevated, in such a rural area -- pretty interesting. I See a sign for the Corning Museum of Glass, which wouldn't be a bad couple of hours.
I was thinking I'd rather live in Corning just because (I assumed) it was a larger area, but I see I was very mistaken. I now remember you mentioning it a while back when we had the thread about large companies outside MSAs. The town is not only small but about as remote as you can get in western NY, while Wallace is only (iirc) 45 minutes or so outside the Coeur d'Alene-Spokane area.
Thanks for the link, btw. I checked out their list of iconic streets in Washington -- while I disagree with a couple of the choices (Percival Landing in Olympia has always seemed a bit hokey and artificial to me), it's not a bad starting point.
The scenery in Wallace is a bit more striking with the steeper and closer-in mountains, so that's my pick. I've been there only briefly, at night, and didn't notice that I-90 through town is elevated, in such a rural area -- pretty interesting. I See a sign for the Corning Museum of Glass, which wouldn't be a bad couple of hours.
I was thinking I'd rather live in Corning just because (I assumed) it was a larger area, but I see I was very mistaken. I now remember you mentioning it a while back when we had the thread about large companies outside MSAs. The town is not only small but about as remote as you can get in western NY, while Wallace is only (iirc) 45 minutes or so outside the Coeur d'Alene-Spokane area.
Thanks for the link, btw. I checked out their list of iconic streets in Washington -- while I disagree with a couple of the choices (Percival Landing in Olympia has always seemed a bit hokey and artificial to me), it's not a bad starting point.
I for one certainly don't underrate Haddonfield. I've pointed it out to people unfamiliar with the Philadelphia area who are surprised to learn it exists. It's a little chunk of the Main Line plopped down in the middle of Camden County — the toniest suburban downtown in all of South Jersey. And it holds its own with bigger suburban Main Streets like those in Montclair up in the New York part of the state.
Renton is loaded with potential, though if I had to choose a Seattle-area suburban Main Street to showcase, it would be Main Street in Bellevue, a charming small-town Main Street that got an edge city grafted onto it. (Though I think I've seen photos recently that show that bigger buildings have encroached on it.) Come back in a decade or so, when the trees have had a chance to grow some, and it might look as cute as Haddonfield.
But since Haddonfield's been brought up, let me call your attention to another underrated South Jersey suburban Main Street, one that has undergone a tremendous transformation from seedy to hip in the span of about 20 years:
Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ (move along it and you will see some earlier Street View images where the trees aren't denuded)
And I'll pair it with a similar one I'm familiar with:
I for one certainly don't underrate Haddonfield. I've pointed it out to people unfamiliar with the Philadelphia area who are surprised to learn it exists. It's a little chunk of the Main Line plopped down in the middle of Camden County — the toniest suburban downtown in all of South Jersey. And it holds its own with bigger suburban Main Streets like those in Montclair up in the New York part of the state.
Renton is loaded with potential, though if I had to choose a Seattle-area suburban Main Street to showcase, it would be Main Street in Bellevue, a charming small-town Main Street that got an edge city grafted onto it. (Though I think I've seen photos recently that show that bigger buildings have encroached on it.) Come back in a decade or so, when the trees have had a chance to grow some, and it might look as cute as Haddonfield.
But since Haddonfield's been brought up, let me call your attention to another underrated South Jersey suburban Main Street, one that has undergone a tremendous transformation from seedy to hip in the span of about 20 years:
Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, NJ (move along it and you will see some earlier Street View images where the trees aren't denuded)
And I'll pair it with a similar one I'm familiar with:
I'm going with NJ on this one as I prefer the layout/look of the buildings as well as the brick sidewalks. Let's do some mountain towns. PNW vs. New England:
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