Street.
The above picture is my block last year when it was being repaved. Pretty cool looking. Despite the building I live in being kind of “eh” in the looks department, my neighborhood is full of pretty streets. I’m not sure I have much to say about this topic really, but I guess I have some thoughts. Like, moving to Albany, the streets very much have meanings, or have had meaning ascribed to them. Hudson is the location of my friend “crew” – or at least it was for a time. That could change. But it held a great deal of power, in the sense that you could just say, “Hey, what’s new over on Hudson?” And of course there are the bar streets, Lark and Madison. I have a better knowledge of the order of our US presidents thanks to the street layout in Corvallis. The last time I was in Portland I saw all kinds of streets that served as inspiration to Matt Groening for the Simpsons (or vise versa?), such as Quimby and Flanders. And those are my thoughts on “street.”
Susie Bafico 