I arrived here in error; I was actually looking for Merely Adequate Building Supply.
Brandon Avenue SW. (If you’re actually looking for this company, they’re now located elsewhere in the city … I just have a thing about antiquated building signs.)
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My dudes, this looks like the ghost train I was trying to find out by Brandon Avenue!
Full disclosure — there is no ghost train in Roanoke, Virginia … at least as far as I am aware. In our Propaganda Era, I am loathe to start even a harmless urban legend. (Santa Claus is quite real, however.)
Christmas card, Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1899. Commercial color lithograph.
Christmastime in Market Square, 2021
Roanoke, Virginia.
Abandoned train tracks beside Brandon Avenue SW
Roanoke, VA. December 2021. Unfortunately there were no sightings of a ghost train. (I couldn’t wait all night.)
Dancin’ with the Star.
I am endlessly trying to get juuuuuust the right photo of St. John’s Episcopal Church with the Mill Mountain Star in the background. I’ll probably never get there, but sometimes the results are fun.
As I’ve noted in the past, this is at the corner of Elm Avenue and Jefferson Street in Roanoke, Virginia.
Walnut Avenue Bridge in Roanoke, VA, November 2021
I am not an excellent photographer by any means, but I’d like to think I got lucky with this set of pictures. I set out for a nice, long walk on a temperate Autumn Friday — and decided to cross Walnut Avenue Bridge for the first time. I was lucky, because the setting sun seemed to set Mill Mountain’s trees ablaze. (And I didn’t even realize I’d be treated to a great view of the Roanoke River beside it.) What a nice and unexpected turn of events at the end of a November day.
I’m sorry, as always, for the shaky-cam! (The bridge was shaking too.)
I don’t even remember taking this photo.
And it isn’t well composed at all.
But it’s still interesting, because there’s a lot going on here.
Night Train!!
No, I’m not talking about the truly abominable malt liquor.
I’m talking about an actual night train in Roanoke, Virginia.
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