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RE: BRKR Thursday Ride! Let's Get This Going!
What a cool ride! An art-show, a dive-bar, and the Peace-Bridge. And I'm getting so nostalgic to Elmwood Avenue! But it seems like you all had a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing! (By the way, is that cybernetic-looking art built out of old bike-parts? These days that all I see...)
Thanks! You might not recognize some of Elmwood Avenue. It becoming all 4 and 5 story new developments. I don't like it. They tore down all the houses between Forest and Bird where Home of the Hits and Mondo Video used to be recently. A lot of the smaller businesses are moving to Grant Street now as none of the small shops can afford the Elmwood rents.
I don't believe she made that art from bike parts but I do have some of that type of art on my living room wall.
Sweet bike-art!
Oh no, Home of the Hits and Mondo Video are gone!!! I guess even Tough Buff is not immune of gentrification. I used to live on Bird, first for a hippie Summer in "the Claremont" following that, in a house past Grant Street. What I loved about that neighborhood is that on one end around Delaware Ave. you have the ritziest mansions, while just a few streets to the west you found yourself the deepest ghetto. I guess now Grant is becoming more trendy... So it goes.
Oh yes I know the Claremont. Grant and Ferry is still the same but a lot of local shops are opening near Grant and Lafayette. A lot of houses were torn down near Grant and Forest and replaced with student housing. People are still scared of the area though.