Today at FLOW I will lead a historic walking tour at key nodes along West Broadway. Although to be more accurate, this walking tour is meant more to showcase the Historypin website and smartphone application. I consider it quite likely that others joining me for the event will know more than I do about connections to our community's past. And that's quite the point of the exercise; my goal is to raise awareness about both the application and our history, so that our neighborhoods can strengthen those connections.
Between two and three today, I will be at the Broadway and North 2nd Street node. From four o'clock to five, I will be at the Capri Theater, showing photos along that stretch. And from five thirty until seven, I will be around Broadway and Emerson. That node has the most photographs pinned, and should prove to be the most revealing segment.
Ironically, that same stretch shows the main flaw in the Historypin application: what were once many separate addresses for individual storefronts have now been consolidated into one or two large commercial buildings that take up entire blocks. Since the app "pins" photos using Google Street View, the pictures are attached to address numbers. What should appear as a row of continuous buildings instead results in photographs being jumbled together onto one site. I am working with the folks who created the app to fix this bug.
If people cannot be at the nodes during the scheduled times, I will mark the ground where you can stand and see a Historypin image on your smartphone or tablet. Simply download the program and you're good to go. I can also be reached on my cell phone, 952-210-1086, if readers wish to meet up in the middle of a tour.
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Jeff, how about an article on 2722 Oliver in regards to todays strib article. You will never guess who the landlord is.
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