brick house

512 Rives ST
The house associated with the Rives Street store was torn down last week.

The third little pig met a man with a load of bricks, and said:
‘Please, man, give me those bricks to build a house with.’
So the man gave him the bricks, and he built his house with them. So the wolf came, as he did to the other little pigs, and said:
‘Little pig, little pig, let me come in.’
‘No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin.’
‘Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.’
Well, he huffed, and he puffed, and he huffed and he puffed, and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down. When he found that he could not, with all his huffing and puffing, blow the house down, he said:
‘Little pig, I know where there is a nice field of turnips.’

senescence


Richmond, Virginia, bounded by Azalea Avenue and I-95 to the north, Brook Road to the east, Westbrook Avenue to the south, the once shiny and new Azalea Mall, now 40+ acres of crumbling asphalt.
The proposed Albemarle Place in Charlottesville/Albemarle will be about this size.
Some commercial developments prosper for hundreds of years, some stumble and fall after a few decades.

Waynesboro, Virginia, downtown


Over the past 40 years, Waynesboro, like downtowns across the country, changed drastically due to the creation of the interstate highway system and subsequent growth of suburban communities. Downtown businesses closed or moved to the mall, shoppers dwindled, property values and sales tax revenues dropped. —Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc.

Where are the windows?