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I'm not real happy to see the Wheel go. I only went there a few times, but that structure was about the only thing left that reminded me that there used to be an actual identifiable place called Bridgetown. Why not just go ahead and take Nick & Tom's while they are at it!?

I was actually in Greenville this past Sunday and Monday--even took some pictures that I had planned to post here. I might post them later, but I’ve been outdone. In the meantime, I’ll share some thoughts on the place where I once lived: Downtown is just great. Main Street is mostly intact—lots of bars, restaurants, and retail, and they have paid great attention to the smaller things like signage, maps, and tours. When the weather is warm they have pretty decent parties downtown after work on Thursdays. And I always have a good time in downtown Greenville. There are usually plenty of people—it really is THE place to go, like a downtown should be. Outside of downtown is a surprisingly big headache. Traffic—super-arterial roads on steroids or cul-de-sacs are about all you got. I lived in Greenville’s West End—home of the awesome waterfall park, the new baseball stadium (where the Greenville DRIVE play), those things in your pictures 37-41, and neighbors that dealt crack all day and night. So the West End will always be a paradox to me—there is some great stuff, but one block off on Main Street is not so much and when I visited three days ago it looked like nothing had changed in the neighborhood. It probably doesn’t help that Rhett Street is the major pedestrian route between the homeless shelter and the soup kitchen. Greenville people like to say how the city population (57,000) is so low because of annexation difficulties and such, which may be true to a certain extent…but as far as urban neighborhoods go, Greenville has very few…the population for the most part does reside outside of anything at all city-like. Really, the West End paradox can be related to the entire city: a great downtown that rapidly deteriorates into suburban hell as one travels outwards. As lostincincinnati mentioned, pretty much everyone is from elsewhere. I remember going to the bar to watch the Bengals and I would easily find plenty of fans for other AFC North teams, but almost never a Panthers fan. In terms of live music the Greenville scene is quite weak—had to make too many trips to Atlanta and Charlotte. I would have traded Greenville’s entire West End for Fifth Street in Dayton’s Oregon District in a second.

Pics from last week

Interesting use of an underscore on the fantastic AR_ building.

Those are really amazing. It is difficult to pick, but I guess 2, 18, 23, and 27 are my favorites.

The lady in the green appears to have a shrunken head. I can't figure out the headlights on the car either.

Believe it or not, the Commercial Building is on there (1982).

This might help with some of those. http://www.daytonlofts.com

Nice job. Those Tupelo songs will have additional meaning to me now.