A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[rogruth]

Understand the map stuff now. Thank you.

[webenda]

And, I was driving by here last week and thought that showing the current view would be interesting.....

Rufus,

They let you drive one of the Google Streets cars too?

I was driving by this morning and noticed most of the buildings in your old photo are still there. I like the stone house on far left of your image. It has hardly changed.



The leaning power pole has been replaced by a leaning street sign.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The older photo makes me wonder how folks ever managed with all that mud (and I assume horse droppings added to the mix). Can you imagine how it must have been during a snow melt! Sheesh!

I notice the house in the left foreground still stands, as does its immediate neighbor. Cement block?

[webenda]

My street was dirt when I moved in here in 1972 Murph. It was fun after a rain, slipping and sliding as we left and returned to the house.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My street was dirt when I moved in here in 1972 Murph. It was fun after a rain, slipping and sliding as we left and returned to the house.

Judging from the photos you showed us of her, quite some time ago, I bet she had a way of making everything fun, even slippin and a-slidin on non-paved surfaces.

[webenda]

My street was dirt when I moved in here in 1972 Murph. It was fun after a rain, slipping and sliding as we left and returned to the house.

Judging from the photos you showed us of her, quite some time ago, I bet she had a way of making everything fun, even slippin and a-slidin on non-paved surfaces.

She did not appreciate the mud. After she got the Corvette she called the county supervisor and told him, "You have to pave our rode. I have a new Corvette and cannot drive it in this mud." I laughed when I heard her on the phone--like owning a Corvette is going to influence the county schedule for road paving. Two weeks later, we had a paved road.

[rogruth]

She knew the right people.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...and I'd imagine it had a lot to do with her personality, too.

[J. S. Bach]

I was driving by this morning and noticed most of the buildings in your old photo are still there. I like the stone house on far left of your image. It has hardly changed.

A friend that lived in Chambersburg called it "Changelessburg".

[Wolf]

A friend that lived in Chambersburg called it "Changelessburg".

That's actual a bit unfair, Dave. They DID modernize the streetlights (I am surprised
that you didn't note that, given your streetlight/traffic light interest), and when
they added the 3rd story with the Mansard roof to that house (fire department?) between
the two streets, they got rid of the cupola with the bell...so that's at least 4 changes..
3 visible streetlights and those to the building. The rivet counters union will be by in
the morning to collect your rivet counter's badge!
And they paved the roads....

[webenda]

I said...

I like the stone house on far left of your image.

Murph said...

Cement block?

And the expert, William Kibble III, says...
Rock-faced concrete blocks


Formed concrete blocks with the surface texture of rough stone were widely used for building construction, mostly in the first quarter of the twentieth century. By the beginning of the depression, the trend was over. The common names for this building material include ornamental, rock-faced, mold-formed and rusticated concrete blocks. The latter being the most frequently used. A more recent name given is "Architectural CMU" (Concrete Masonry Unit). With the decreasing lumber supply and increase in cost of "real" masonry at the time, it was an economical alternative building material.

--William Kibbel III, The Home Inspector

Reference: http://www.oldhouseweb.com/how-to-advic ... ocks.shtml

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And we can see how sturdy it has been.

[G3750]

She knew the right people.

Damn.

[E7]

And the expert, William Kibble III, says...
Rock-faced concrete blocks


Formed concrete blocks with the surface texture of rough stone were widely used for building construction, mostly in the first quarter of the twentieth century. By the beginning of the depression, the trend was over. The common names for this building material include ornamental, rock-faced, mold-formed and rusticated concrete blocks. The latter being the most frequently used. A more recent name given is "Architectural CMU" (Concrete Masonry Unit). With the decreasing lumber supply and increase in cost of "real" masonry at the time, it was an economical alternative building material.

--William Kibbel III, The Home Inspector

A late friend of mine had a house with a wrap around porch made of that material, and he called it: "depression block". Not sure how/why he came up with the name. He was too young to have experienced the depression.

Rich

[J. S. Bach]

A friend that lived in Chambersburg called it "Changelessburg".

That's actual a bit unfair, Dave.

I was just repeating what MusicMike said; he was born, raised, and lived most of his life there.

And they paved the roads....

Not so as you would notice today.