Google Maps: Grit, Funny, WTF, Anything Interesting - Page 8

Ex-Ithacan · #**141** Posted **Dec 17, 2016, 9:37 PM**

This had to take a while:

jdcamb · #**142** Posted **Dec 18, 2016, 2:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

Yeah, I just picked Carmel because of the reputation.

My apartment building is in the Collegetown neighborhood of Ithaca. There's been a huge amount of changes since I lived there in the 50s & 60s:

Our building is on Buffalo Street at the bottom left.

The Souvalaki House is still there. And still awesome.

Ex-Ithacan · #**143** Posted **Dec 18, 2016, 2:45 AM**

Hey jdcamb, you're talking about this place eh?

In case you are wondering what went in the empty space up the block, check this out:

https://ithacating.com/2016/08/24/32...-update-82016/

Ex-Ithacan · #**144** Posted **Dec 24, 2016, 9:30 PM**

Looking down 20th street near Greenmont Ave in Baltimore in 2009.

Looking up the same block in 2014.

Ex-Ithacan · #**145** Posted **Dec 30, 2016, 5:13 PM**

Vegas has it all; height, palm trees, and an IHOP.

The North One · #**146** Posted **Dec 30, 2016, 9:00 PM**

Wow, that street in Baltimore was significantly downgraded, and for what?

All those townhomes could have been renovated and sold as a packaged neighborhood. But instead, they decide to destroy the whole thing and erect some cheap new-builds in it's place. Do these people think it's the buildings themselves that prevent residents from moving in? When will we realize that blight itself is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problems.

Ex-Ithacan · #**147** Posted **Jan 2, 2017, 4:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by The North One

Wow, that street in Baltimore was significantly downgraded, and for what?

All those townhomes could have been renovated and sold as a packaged neighborhood. But instead, they decide to destroy the whole thing and erect some cheap new-builds in it's place. Do these people think it's the buildings themselves that prevent residents from moving in? When will we realize that blight itself is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problems.

I'm not sure why there was a tear down. I would guess the interiors of many of those rows had been stripped of copper and probably semi destroyed by neglect and vandalism. Must have been a financial decision.

There are still thousands of empty rows in the city, and I know some rehab and gentrification are helping to keep the old bones alive.

Ex-Ithacan · #**148** Posted **Jan 4, 2017, 2:42 AM**

Old building in Butte, MT.

It apparently had a colorful past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas_Brothel

Ex-Ithacan · #**149** Posted **Jan 7, 2017, 10:46 PM**

Going outside the US for this one.

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Graffiti

Even on the talls

It can't cover everything

Not sure how much cotton candy he's gonna sell there.

Ex-Ithacan · #**150** Posted **Jan 10, 2017, 4:48 PM**

I wonder where Robin is?

(Sao Paulo)

Ex-Ithacan · #**151** Posted **Jan 14, 2017, 4:54 PM**

Pittsburg.... the one in Kansas without the "h".

Ex-Ithacan · #**152** Posted **Jan 15, 2017, 4:14 PM**

Love the little neighborhood bench on the right side of this dead end street.

Urbannizer · #**153** Posted **Jan 19, 2017, 1:15 AM**

Four-Five yr time span and majority of the single family on this stretch of W. Bell was replaced with townhomes.

W. Bell St. - Fourth Ward/Neartown

Ex-Ithacan · #**154** Posted **Jan 20, 2017, 1:40 AM**

^ Wow, that is quite dramatic. Thanks.

jdcamb · #**155** Posted **Jan 20, 2017, 4:33 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ex-Ithacan

Hey jdcamb, you're talking about this place eh?

In case you are wondering what went in the empty space up the block, check this out:

https://ithacating.com/2016/08/24/32...-update-82016/

I used to park there when I would get home late from the Library. Hated living there. Neighbors smoked weed all day and night. Loud music and video game tournaments all day and night. Free ISDN Internet courtesy Rarthlink in 1991. Riding bikes in Shindagin.

Ex-Ithacan · #**156** Posted **Jan 21, 2017, 11:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by jdcamb

I used to park there when I would get home late from the Library. Hated living there. Neighbors smoked weed all day and night. Loud music and video game tournaments all day and night. Free ISDN Internet courtesy Rarthlink in 1991. Riding bikes in Shindagin.

I left the neighborhood in '69, and the place was already changing to a hardcore drug culture. It seems heroin was starting to take a foothold back then. Not surprised to hear there were still some partying going on in the 90s. I guess you didn't find enough bike riding challenge on East Hill for you, eh?