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Railroad tracks in Roanoke, VA

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Under the Wonju Street overpass in Roanoke SW, heading north.

 

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Chestnut Street in Salem, Virginia.

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Looking north past Main Street.  That church you see is First United Methodist.

Update: I asked my friends what kind of trees those are.  The consensus is that they’re cherry blossoms.

 

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“A View of Salem in Virginia in 1855,” by Edward Beyer

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Market Street, Salem, Virginia (Photo)

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Market Street in Salem, VA, looking north across Main Street toward the Alleghenies.  St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is at left.

 

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A tunnel and an overhead train, Roanoke, Virginia

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This is heading into Roanoke Southwest.

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Union Street, Salem, Virginia

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I’m a Yankee.  Sooner or later, I had to find myself on Union Street.

The house you see in the third and fourth photos has just GOT to be haunted.

And that giant sawed-off tree trunk would make an INCREDIBLE fortress for G.I. Joes.

 

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A slightly unkempt and overgrown back lot … (Photo)

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… in Salem, Virginia.  It had such character that I had to snap a photo.

This shot was taken from Calhoun Street; the front of the building is a storefront facing Main.

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Towers Shopping Center, Roanoke, Virginia

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Clearly this shopping center lies along the path of The Beam.

Only Stephen King fans will get that joke.

There are at least two cool places to grab lunch there — McAlister’s Deli and Firehouse Subs.  Unless I’m mistaken, we don’t have those chains in New York.

 

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Grandin Village, Virginia, March 2017 (2)

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Grace’s Pizzeria is damn good, and inexpensive too.  You can get a small pizza with two toppings for just under $10.  It’s occasionally extra greasy, though.  (At one point, I tilted the pie sideways and it started just sliding off.)

 

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Former Peacock-Salem Launderers and Cleaners building in Salem, VA

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This building had too much character for me not to photograph it.  It is the former site of the Peacock-Salem Launderers and Cleaners on Colorado Street in Salem.

The business is not defunct — they actually just moved elsewhere in town five years ago. Prior to that, the building below was used since 1935.

 

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