Roanoke Pictures

[electricmonk]

Haven't ruled it out yet. I need to look into the tax credits for converting it back into a single family home.

[lammius]

Thanks for this picture. I never knew what "RC" in RC Cola stood for!

[rusthebuss]

Thanks for this picture.  I never knew what "RC" in RC Cola stood for!

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That pic looks like housing in Park Place in Norfolk or Huntersville

[electricmonk]

Here's some new photos. I got a late start and it got dark before I could get all the shots I wanted.

Victory Stadium

Victory Stadium

Site of the first building in the Biomedical Park.

Looking north towards downtown.

Looking south along Jefferson St. The grain towers and all those buildings are scheduled for demolition.

Why we're called the "Star City of the South".

The Boxley Building

Patrick Henry Hotel

Next week time and weather permitting I'll try to get out and get some photos of various construction projects going on.

[rusthebuss]

nice dude!

[soloextreme]

I used to live in Roanoke and as a matter of fact still have family in Hunting Hills.

Thats some curtain wall on the hospital. I havent been back in about 6 months or so. I need to make it back. Pretty area.

[Unifour]

It's small but still quite nice.

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Roanoke isn't that small. It has close to 100 thousand residents. Richmond is by no means a great metropolis and it is declining along with Roanoke. Richmond's population has dropped below 200,000.

[wrldcoupe4]

According to the mayor and the city, the census estimates are simply innaccurate... they stated that the population is now back above 200k and growing (it would be hard not to given the incredible amount of condos/homes/apartments coming online)... It has a metro of over 1.2 million. The surrounding counties have strong growth rates ...for example, Chesterfield is fast approaching 300k residents... It's not a great metropolis, but its not just a dot on the map (neither is Roanoke btw)...

[electricmonk]

A couple of full moon photos from last weekend. I forgot to take my tripod so they aren't as sharp as I would like them to be.

[urbanvb]

Those are nice. Thanks for sharing.

[wrldcoupe4]

awesome! I dig that first one

[electricmonk]

A few new night time photos.

Higher Education Center, Hotel Roanoke, O. Winston Link Museum. Foreground parking lot is the site of the new art museum.

Wachovia Tower, pedestrian bridge

Center in the Square, city market area.

Norfolk Southern building

[StevenRocks]

Thanks for capturing the beauty of downtown, monk.

[electricmonk]

A few new ones from Sunday afternoon. Next time I'll move out of downtown and start getting shots of neighborhoods. The sky was too perfect today and I couldn't pass up these views. I really need to get a polarizer filter too.

[wrldcoupe4]

great pics thanks!!

[urbanvb]

very nice

[burt]

Monk, I wish you could snap and post some pictures of the Jefferson Center and tell me more about it. I'm a theatre freak and fascinated by such structures. Is it an old school?

I remember when downtown was dominated by The American Theatre on your main street. It was Roanoke's movie palace and occasionally hosted stage presentations - for example, ther Miss Virginia contest was always held there. It, unfortunately, was demolished. Does anyone know what is on the site now?

PS: ALL of your pictures are terrific. Thanks for posting them.

[rusthebuss]

Have you guys heard that the train museum is leaving Roanoke? They building one here and I'm wondering if they are closing the one there or just building a entire one from scratch. I know the one that wrecked, which i was in when it did, is up in Roanoke, the old 611.

[StevenRocks]

Have you guys heard that the train museum is leaving Roanoke? They building one here and I'm wondering if they are closing the one there or just building a entire one from scratch. I know the one that wrecked, which i was in when it did, is up in Roanoke, the old 611.

I hope you're wrong, Russ. I think the Roanoke museum's staying put.

[rusthebuss]

I hope you're wrong, Russ. I think the Roanoke museum's staying put.

The reason that I ask is cause my pops works for NS and I seen at their hq that they are building a Museum in Norfolk and he thinks that they will take the things up in Roanoke and move them here. Hopefully they will keep both but it would be nice to have a reunion with the 611 after I was in that wreck. I need to find more info out. I wouldn't wish it gone for you guys.

[StevenRocks]

There's hopefully enough trains to sperad around to both museums.

You're the only guy I know that's been in a historic train wreck, Russ.

[rusthebuss]

There's hopefully enough trains to sperad around to both museums.

You're the only guy I know that's been in a historic train wreck, Russ.

Do you remember the train wreck in 86 that happened in the Dismal Swamp?

[rusthebuss]

I will try and scan a photo of the wreck that i have. Someone that worked with my dad took them and gave them to him after he recouped from the wreck. My scanner is down now and it might be a few weeks before i get a new one.

[electricmonk]

Monk, I wish you could snap and post some pictures of the Jefferson Center and tell me more about it. I'm a theatre freak and fascinated by such structures. Is it an old school?

I remember when downtown was dominated by The American Theatre on your main street. It was Roanoke's movie palace and occasionally hosted stage presentations - for example, ther Miss Virginia contest was always held there. It, unfortunately, was demolished. Does anyone know what is on the site now?

PS: ALL of your pictures are terrific. Thanks for posting them.

Thanks and my pleasure.

I'll try to remember to get some shots of the Jefferson Center my next time out with the camera. It's only about 3 blocks from my apartment. One of those things that I see so often that I kind of forget that it's even there. I found this old photo of it on another website. And yeah it was a high school up until the early 1960's.

Here's some old photos of the American.

I'm not 100% sure but I believe that the old FNEB building later First Union then Wachovia Bank now Carillion Hospital building is on the site now. They were removing the Wachovia sign just last weekend before I took this photo. I'll find out for sure later on if that's where the American was. After looking at the middle picture I'll say that 99.99999% sure that's where it was. That looks like the old FNEB building to t's right and that building is still there.

Source for tons of old Roanoke photos Old Roanoke Some really great stuff there.

[StevenRocks]

Do you remember the train wreck in 86 that happened in the Dismal Swamp?

Just barely. I remember it was pretty messy.

I'm not 100% sure but I believe that the old FNEB building later First Union then Wachovia Bank now Carillion Hospital building is on the site now.

It's the same site.