Rainy Day Discovery

Charlottesville's Historic Downtown Mall is a pedestrian-friendly trip into history. The herring-bone brick patterns classic to the Jeffersonian era leads us through classically constructed buildings housing offices, shops, restaurants, condos, galleries and all. I had the privilege of snooping around a seemingly-dilapidated four-story building that the owners had been readying for an uplift. Outfit. Renovation.


While cleaning out the evidence of a pigeon sacred city, 1920's kitchen furnishings, and preparing for a historical renovation of the space, they found some interesting evidence of that dapper lifestyle we know from black and white films. Its amazing to walk through these rooms; wallpaper dangling, dating the space. It's like visiting the set of an old film. Who lived here? What did they do for entertainment? why did they leave their hat behind? This could have been a young couples' first apartment or a family home. 80 years from now, will our living spaces be a reminder to the future of days when everything was only shown in 2D at the movie theaters? Let your imaginations run with it...