Southern Photos of the Day

[RestedTraveler]

On the other side of the Reedy River from RiverPlace sits the Peace Center for the Performing Arts and the Wyche Pavilion, pictured here:

[ironchapman]

I LOVE these pics of Greenville. Keep it up!

RT, that pic you just oposted is awesome. Really gives meaning to the word "Greenville"

Here's one of my favorites by myself of Atlanta. I took this from a parking garage a few weeks ago.

View from the Parking Garage

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Edited June 18, 2006 by ironchapman

[TBurban]

Awesome shots RestedTraveler and Ironchapman

I love the photos of Greenville, it's such a photogenic city

I always thought Atlanta's Fairlie-Poplar area was read as Fairly Popular I suppose it is though, its beautiful!

Keep em' comin guys!

[ironchapman]

Awesome shots RestedTraveler and Ironchapman

I love the photos of Greenville, it's such a photogenic city

I always thought Atlanta's Fairlie-Poplar area was read as Fairly Popular I suppose it is though, its beautiful!

Keep em' comin guys!

Many thanks, Tburban

Here, try this out from that thread I mentioned:

^^There seemed to be a lot of people at the festival.

[TBurban]

Very nice! Looks very well landscaped, almost the appearance of the building lined edges of Central Park, NY,NY. Definitely a good look for Atlanta

[wrldcoupe4]

Largest Mansion on Monument Avenue in Richmond... currently the home of the Virginia Center for Architecture.

[wrldcoupe4]

heck, and while we're at it, here's one of the Monuments on Monument Avenue... Jefferson Davis. The sky turned out really weird... even an airplane!

[TBurban]

Awesome shots, Coupe

Along Monument Ave (same one as above)

Edited June 18, 2006 by TBurban

[RestedTraveler]

Great photos, guys!

Wow! This rivals some of the mansions in Akron, OH. That's huge!

[RestedTraveler]

Continuing our photo tour of the Reedy River and Greenway Park System in Greenville, here is another view of the Swamp Rabbit Pedestrian Bridge (RiverPlace on the Left Bank, Wyche Pavilion and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts on the Right Bank):

[Spartan]

Here are some of King Street in Charleston

And here is one of Charleston's skyline

[dimebag1980]

Largest Mansion on Monument Avenue in Richmond... currently the home of the Virginia Center for Architecture.

That's the perfect building for an Architecture Center. Beautiful.

[Mith242]

Great shots everyone. Nice to see so many areas of the south getting represented.

[Mith242]

I've posted these elsewhere but here's a few shots of the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.

[dimebag1980]

How about a little small-town charm?

Minden, Louisiana... eastern suburb of Shreveport-Bossier... official Census population (2004) 13,281.

Downtown Minden streetscape:

More downtown Minden streetscape:

Edited June 18, 2006 by SBCmetroguy

[Mith242]

Just curious Brian, did Minden start off as a suburb or was it already an established town before Shreveport was very large?

[wrldcoupe4]

That's the perfect building for an Architecture Center. Beautiful.

Agreed... It was designed by Architect John Russell Pope. It's called the Branch House, built for John Kerr Branch, and weighs in at 27,000 sf!

Edited June 19, 2006 by wrldcoupe4

[dimebag1980]

Just curious Brian, did Minden start off as a suburb or was it already an established town before Shreveport was very large?

Thanks for the question, Rod. Strangely enough, Minden and Shreveport were both established as towns in the same year, 1836. Obviously with Shreveport being the port city, it had an advantage that Minden didn't. Minden sits nearly 30 miles east of downtown Shreveport, but only 15 miles east of where I live. It actually seems a lot closer to the city today than it probably did in 1836, because Bossier City and Haughton have both expanded east toward it. Minden isn't a traditional "suburb" and the people in that town even fight that title, but over the years Minden has taken on a lot of people who chose not to live in Shreveport-Bossier but would rather commute in daily. I've read somewhere before that around 25% of the people in Minden commute into Shreveport-Bossier to work every day. Minden has become a suburb out of necessity, basically, the same way the west Shreveport border town of Greenwood has. One thing I've noticed, though, is these old, established, historic towns love to fight the term "suburb."

FYI: the town was actually named for an established town in Germay named Minden, and to this day there is still an area of Minden, Louisiana, called Germantown, where the original German settlement was.

[Mith242]

Thanks for the question, Rod. Strangely enough, Minden and Shreveport were both established as towns in the same year, 1836. Obviously with Shreveport being the port city, it had an advantage that Minden didn't. Minden sits nearly 30 miles east of downtown Shreveport, but only 15 miles east of where I live. It actually seems a lot closer to the city today than it probably did in 1836, because Bossier City and Haughton have both expanded east toward it. Minden isn't a traditional "suburb" and the people in that town even fight that title, but over the years Minden has taken on a lot of people who chose not to live in Shreveport-Bossier but would rather commute in daily. I've read somewhere before that around 25% of the people in Minden commute into Shreveport-Bossier to work every day. Minden has become a suburb out of necessity, basically, the same way the west Shreveport border town of Greenwood has. One thing I've noticed, though, is these old, established, historic towns love to fight the term "suburb."

FYI: the town was actually named for an established town in Germay named Minden, and to this day there is still an area of Minden, Louisiana, called Germantown, where the original German settlement was.

Yeah I've seen that happen before. In the past the towns weren't that close to each other but over time one eventually becomes a bigger city and grow all the way over to the other. Also interesting on the name because I thought the name seemed German sounding. Brian, is Cross Lake close to this town? Just trying to figure out if there's a link between these pics and that pic of the house with German on it that you posted in the Louisiana forum.

[dimebag1980]

Yeah I've seen that happen before. In the past the towns weren't that close to each other but over time one eventually becomes a bigger city and grow all the way over to the other. Also interesting on the name because I thought the name seemed German sounding. Brian, is Cross Lake close to this town? Just trying to figure out if there's a link between these pics and that pic of the house with German on it that you posted in the Louisiana forum.

I actually wondered that when you told me that was written in German on that house. There are still quite a few German people left around here, so the people who built that house on the lake could have originally lived in Germantown.

Minden is actually closer to 35+ miles from Cross Lake, as the crow files, since Cross Lake is a few miles northwest of downtown Shreveport.

Here, I'll attach a map from Google Earth with placemarks showing you where these locations are. For reference, I've drawn lines from my house to my office showing that distance.

[Greens!]

1) Museum District and Sam Houston statue.

2) Texas Medical Center from Allen Parkway

[wrldcoupe4]

Gallery 5 in Richmond around Christmas 05... art gallery in what was an old Fire Station...

Steamer Co. No 5 was built in 1849 and is one of the oldest standing firehouses in the country.

Just across the street.. the Richmond Dairy Building, now turned into Apartments:

Edited June 19, 2006 by wrldcoupe4

[goodbye]

Father's Day morning in Falls Park on the Reedy - downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

[Mith242]

I actually wondered that when you told me that was written in German on that house. There are still quite a few German people left around here, so the people who built that house on the lake could have originally lived in Germantown.

Minden is actually closer to 35+ miles from Cross Lake, as the crow files, since Cross Lake is a few miles northwest of downtown Shreveport.

Here, I'll attach a map from Google Earth with placemarks showing you where these locations are. For reference, I've drawn lines from my house to my office showing that distance.

Okay, so not too particularly close, but still close enough I guess to be in the 'German influenced' area of Louisiana.

Gallery 5 in Richmond around Christmas 05... art gallery in what was an old Fire Station...

Steamer Co. No 5 was built in 1849 and is one of the oldest standing firehouses in the country.

Just across the street.. the Richmond Dairy Building, now turned into Apartments:

Those are some interesting buildings.

[RestedTraveler]

Wow, that's one very cool building! This is a great photo!