roanoke.com's alleged history site. History@Roanoke.com, as they call it, hasnt been updated in nearly a year.
Yesss, time for me to bitch off about this one. Irks me to all hell. Im always doing research for the site, and I come across this series of pages often. Great photos, but damnit to all hell, not one shred of information.
Example:Downtown Lookup These pics are from 1997, and as nice as they are - how much has the city changed since 97? And there is no information in the "blurb" written to accompany the pics.
Just this: Address, title, general architectural description. Yanno what, this is not This old House, so try again. And I will quote - "124 East Campbell Ave. Twists and Turns This three-story commercial building was constructed in 1900 during the Romantic Revival Period. The modillioned and dentilled cornice includes a wide frieze board supported by brick pilasters with a narrow Ionic capital." Accompanyed by a picture of the building as a whole, rather than the small peice of building your supposed to identify it by.
Who writes this stuff?
This is the kind of thinking thats getting us the Roanoke Art Museum and Solar Reflector. Oh - and just a side note about that. Anyone with a Stainless Steel sink will tell you - Stainless Steel Stains.
The more I read these descriptions of the buildings, the more I think they were written by someone who has never been to Roanoke. Or maybe was here once.
Well - at least I let you know Im releasing pictures into the wild unfiltered. And I can promise you - at some point, each picture will have an explination with it. And it will appear on a page, as part of a whole story.
Boy - its not THAT difficult is it? Then again, it is the Roanoke Times.
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