Chasing history

 Houses on Vance Ave. that might have been pictured recently in my post featuring a 1915 postcard...HERE.

The other day I wanted to check out the newest coffee shop, "Recess." It had just opened, but I also heard their baked goods had sold out quickly. This was around 3 pm, so I didn't really want/need coffee. 

It's on the left-hand side of this building on Black Mountain Ave.

While on the right end is a meat place. On the other side of the parking lot is Louise's Kitchen which serves breakfast and lunch (and often has a line waiting).

But let's look from the view the post card had...sort of. It's now an auto repair place, instead of a good old hotel which burned down many years ago...new building completely.

The railroad tracks haven't changed, and what I thought was a berm along the far side is really just how the railroad cut into the mountain, which shows in the land below the tracks on Vance.

And here's the post card so you can actually compare perhaps the buildings in 1915 to those in 2024.

So I drove slowly west on Vance, taking photos of the older houses.

On the north/uphill side of Vance St...one of the first old houses.

This one is on the south side of the street, and connected to next door...

This church which is pretty new.

Back looking north, up the hill, I noticed several of these older houses have been cut up into apartments.

These were the only pair of the hip-roofed cottages, which would possibly have been around that long ago. (south side of street)

My last shot of a house on the uphill side of Vance Ave. 

I'm not convinced any are the same buildings. Maybe the register of deeds...but I'm not interested in that deep a search. I want to be making little pottery dragons, remember?

Sharing again with Sepia Saturday. This is where those old photos often take us, to see what's there now!

Today's quote:

The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.—Louis Pasteur

Today March 9: 

National Barbie Day, 

Get Over It Day

Two years ago, March 11, my blog was sharing some spring beauties before a snow was due to fall.