an evening stroll
in town
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| lime bikes all over |
i won't remember all the history,
but i'll give it a shot!
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| currently Natty Greene's...one of the first stops from the train depot back when it was a saloon, of course |
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was some sort of mercantile store or grocery...
now the lower level sells eye glasses & art |
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no idea what it was because i was seriously distracted
by all the cheesecakes in the window |
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| the gray & red were/are one building, with the red the more originally-hued of the two |
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| beautiful arches....i think at least the lower part was a drug store long ago. |
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| was a publishing company back when it was originally constructed...& now it's Scuppernong (book store) |
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originally headquarters for Moses Cone
(the mill owner, along with his brother Cesar) |
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| not on the tour...but so lovely. was a bank building, i believe. |
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| a Brutalist parking garage (brutalist = raw concrete, kinda sorta, in French) |
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love it / hate it ...got to admire, at least the inset balcony windows.
looks 1960's but, actually, constructed in the '40's! |
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gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous
Meyers Department Store building
gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous |
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| perennial favorite, the Kress Building |
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| Kress Building, at the very tippy-top |
panning from Kress across to Elm Street Center
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| seriously, almost every building on Elm Street is just beautiful! |
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the top of the former drug store where Vick's VapoRub was first crafted
& where O'Henry worked as a very young man |
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| iconic because of the SIT-INs |
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| come take a tour! |
following the Woolworth Lettering
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| Brutalist office building near Center City Park |
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| not on the tour - but a very lovely theatre that is one street west of Elm Street |
you really should go on one of these walks!
~ superb ~
