Bricks

[jeriendhal]

The entrance to the parking lot I use is being re-paved. After scraping up the old asphalt I can now see the brick used to pave the streets over fifty, perhaps even a hundred years ago. It reminded me that until they repaved Charles St. I could see a little piece of damaged asphalt about a foot wide that gave more glimpses of paving brick, and of the old streetcar rail. Now the light rail is two blocks over and less than a decade old now, and concrete sidewalks I walk have been replaced by warm brick once again, along with new "old fashioned" street lamps. Baltimore seems to be intent on burying the past and re-creating it at the same time.

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[chewipaka.livejournal.com]

In Baltimore's defense, it has a simultaneous awesome and terrible past. Didn't they cover up all the bricks from the rioting that happened in the late sixties or something? And now maybe they realized that Baltimore looks good with brick, and that the concrete is rather hideous.

And I gotta admit, I like being able to walk down Charles Street without the light rail there.