Sometimes you can find beauty and visual interest where you least expect it. Here we are at an Exxon station captivated by the geometric, clean lines of the red, white, and blue scene. The station is located in East Greensboro, on East Market Street, near NC A&T. As you can see, it is still possible to make a pay phone call here. Pay phones and university campuses just seem to go together. The only other one we've located in Greensboro is beside UNCG (here). Do you know of others?
This photo also documents the price of regular gas on July 28th (the day the photo was taken). Already, the price is higher. We plan to return to this same spot next year to compare the price of gas from one year to the next. Do you think it will be higher or lower?
On another note, if you notice, the Jefferson Standard/Jefferson Pilot/Lincoln Financial Building is peeking out above the red roof of the Exxon outbuilding. When the "JP Building" is in a photo, you know it was taken in Greensboro.
Dear readers, As an update, we still haven't found the owners of the pigeon we featured last Thursday. We gave the bird some practice flying on an enclosed porch this past weekend, have been feeding him and giving him plenty of water. We'll probably just release him sometime in the near future. Sure would be nice to know if his owners ever get him back. Do you have any neighbors missing a pigeon?
Posted by: Janis & David | Monday, August 13, 2012 at 06:36 AM
Off the top of my head, there's a payphone outside the convenience store at the corner of Market and Dolley Madison, and one by the little league field at Lindley Park.
Posted by: Robert Caponi | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 02:43 PM