Bumpity, Bump
As I've mentioned in a few previous posts, there are still a few relics of city streets of the past. Here is one such cobblestone thoroughfare. It runs down to Commercial Street, and if you are hankering for a taste of what streets in the city were like and why alignment shops probably did a brisk business, this would be my Exhibit A. A trip down this short lane can still make your fillings rattle a bit. All I can say is placing these stones on the streets of Portland must have been a painstaking process. They had to be better than a dirt lane, right?
Get ready for a bumpity, bump trip into the past.
There are two streets in Stanwood with brick streets. One in the older part of town which is called just 'Stanwood' and one in East Stanwood and Stanwood isn't a very big town. It was two towns years ago and consolidated back in the 1960s. Blocks apart.
ReplyDeleteI scrolled through the last several days of your blog and enjoyed the festivities.
MB
Now really. Would you rather have concrete or asphalt? I have a feeling you love these old streets just like we Texans love our red brick streets!
ReplyDeletethere's a few of those in dallas, still. yes, it'll rattle the fillings from your teeth!
ReplyDeleteThere are not many streets like this left.
ReplyDeleteI understand what you mean about rattling one's fillings: we still have some of these here too...
ReplyDeleteA bumpity trip into the past sounds pretty good to me :)
ReplyDeleteLooks and probably feels just like Versailles (which in itself is a trip into the past!)
ReplyDeleteA good street for a dentist's office, then. :-)
ReplyDeleteA bit bumpy! We have cobblestone pathways in a number of courtyards here.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine the number of hours it took to lay those. And it has outlasted any asphalt road that was that old !
ReplyDeleteFrom previous experiences, I can feel that street in my bones way down here in Florida. I think such streets are very attractive, though and those that can should be made into pedestrian walkways.
ReplyDeleteOne yard of bricks is about all they can stand at the Indianapolis Speedway, but then I suspect you drive more slowly, especially on these cobblestones.
ReplyDeleteI am a pretty traditional old guy, and I like streets like this.
ReplyDeleteI like the way that these cobblestone streets look, but maintenance couldn't be very easy. Traversing them in high heels is pretty tricky, too
ReplyDeleteIt seems like all city have small relics of the past if you know where to look. I often wondered about brick streets. Each brick had to be placed by hand. Plus bricks are not that strong in the over all scheme of things.
ReplyDeleteI've been watching workers laying in sidewalk bricks on Commercial Street (heading east from Starbucks). They seem to make them & cut them right there before laying them in. Yes, painstaking...
ReplyDeleteAwesome work.Just wanted to drop a comment and say I am new to your blog and really like what I am reading.Thanks for the share
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