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.
Tag Archives: Virginia
“A View of Salem in Virginia in 1855,” by Edward Beyer
Market Street, Salem, Virginia (Photo)
Market Street in Salem, VA, looking north across Main Street toward the Alleghenies. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is at left.
A tunnel and an overhead train, Roanoke, Virginia
This is heading into Roanoke Southwest.
Union Street, Salem, Virginia
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.
A slightly unkempt and overgrown back lot … (Photo)
… 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.
Towers Shopping Center, Roanoke, Virginia
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.
Grandin Village, Virginia, March 2017 (2)
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.)
Former Peacock-Salem Launderers and Cleaners building in Salem, VA
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.
Grandin Village, Virginia, March 2017
Only in the South can you find an “ice cream and soda bar” on the main strip. Some great friends of mine introduced me to “Pop’s” a couple of weeks ago. Diet be damned; I can’t wait to find an excuse to go back.
The below sign for Tae Kwon Do apparently advertises training in styles from “Traditional” through “WTF.”
I’d love to know what the “WTF” style of fighting is. I’ll bet it’s something to see.
Below the sign is Grace’s Pizzeria. (I wish I’d gotten a better picture.) The pizza there is damn good, if a little extra greasy.
