Shortly after posting the blog on the homes with drunken tenants out front, they were gone! I don't know what happened, but they are no longer there every morning. The rest of the photos are still pretty much the same.
Someone revamping one of the old beauts said that they left the house in the evening, locked up, and came back to find it broken into with beds on the floor. That is quite bold.
When I walk the dogs, I bring a large plastic shopping bag with me for trash in the lawns and it never fails to be full at the end of the walk.
There ARE people converting beautiful old houses from apartments to single family dwellings again! Bless your hearts!!!!
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
A Sunday Morning Stroll
Okay, fear made this less a stroll and more a drive by photo shooting.
The morning yards are filled with debris:
Those darned kids! ...that are seldom being watched and often found as young as two or three out on 18th street. Someone is going to get hurt...or worse...
Something seems so sad about a stroller, a cinderblock, and two boards...
So, does living here make you drink or does drinking make you live here?
This is either sad or scary. Thrown with such force as to break the fence. What was the emotional or physical effect on the child...
Somehow a flowerpot outside a house gives it promise, even if it has just transferred ownership and still has sores...
A pillow on the roof below a window with the screen torn. Also the blinds are all broken or bent up. This is a major problem in the neighborhood. How can you get your tenants to care? or for that matter the landlord?
Speaking of landlords, this home is the one directly behind my home that has been vacant for 17 years. Before my own son's birthday I "celebrate" the anniversary date of our moving in to our current home. No one was living here when we moved in...
This is one of my favorites that I have faith will someday be restored to its former beauty:
Behind apartments on 19th and Spring:
Caught in architectural confusion...
Sale pending? We hope we get a caring landlord here...
Next door...
So, Big Bird, who are the people in YOUR neighborhood? Do they sit on the front porch and drink at 8:00 am on Sunday morning a mere block from a large church?
The Lucky Lady. We don't feel so lucky to have her in our neighborhood. Who goes to the bar at 8:00 am? I must be missing out.
This is another I feel would be/could be very nice if fixed up:
At the far left of this former beauty are some more neighbors out drinking and whooping it up:
What are you dumping out your window that turns the building black?
This is one of the beauties that can be seen from Minnesota Avenue. I wonder if the neighborhood would be so bad if people would look and see a well taken care of property instead of this?
Queen Anne would turn over in her grave:
I see these poor sagging homes with their drunken tenants every morning on my way to work. I have seldom driven by any day or night where there isn't someone out drinking on the porch of one or both of these. Do they take shifts, or not sleep?
Sioux Falls, you boarded this up a long time ago. What is going to happen - when are you going to do something about it? We are board with looking at it like this!
Nice. Was it a hit and run, or is it okay to leave windshield glass on the ground following an accident?
If the neighbor's house didn't look like this:
And this:
Would this happen?
The morning yards are filled with debris:
Those darned kids! ...that are seldom being watched and often found as young as two or three out on 18th street. Someone is going to get hurt...or worse...
Something seems so sad about a stroller, a cinderblock, and two boards...
So, does living here make you drink or does drinking make you live here?
This is either sad or scary. Thrown with such force as to break the fence. What was the emotional or physical effect on the child...
Somehow a flowerpot outside a house gives it promise, even if it has just transferred ownership and still has sores...
A pillow on the roof below a window with the screen torn. Also the blinds are all broken or bent up. This is a major problem in the neighborhood. How can you get your tenants to care? or for that matter the landlord?
Speaking of landlords, this home is the one directly behind my home that has been vacant for 17 years. Before my own son's birthday I "celebrate" the anniversary date of our moving in to our current home. No one was living here when we moved in...
This is one of my favorites that I have faith will someday be restored to its former beauty:
Behind apartments on 19th and Spring:
Caught in architectural confusion...
Sale pending? We hope we get a caring landlord here...
Next door...
So, Big Bird, who are the people in YOUR neighborhood? Do they sit on the front porch and drink at 8:00 am on Sunday morning a mere block from a large church?
The Lucky Lady. We don't feel so lucky to have her in our neighborhood. Who goes to the bar at 8:00 am? I must be missing out.
This is another I feel would be/could be very nice if fixed up:
At the far left of this former beauty are some more neighbors out drinking and whooping it up:
What are you dumping out your window that turns the building black?
This is one of the beauties that can be seen from Minnesota Avenue. I wonder if the neighborhood would be so bad if people would look and see a well taken care of property instead of this?
Queen Anne would turn over in her grave:
I see these poor sagging homes with their drunken tenants every morning on my way to work. I have seldom driven by any day or night where there isn't someone out drinking on the porch of one or both of these. Do they take shifts, or not sleep?
Sioux Falls, you boarded this up a long time ago. What is going to happen - when are you going to do something about it? We are board with looking at it like this!
Nice. Was it a hit and run, or is it okay to leave windshield glass on the ground following an accident?
If the neighbor's house didn't look like this:
And this:
Would this happen?
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Parker Block
A nice view of the Parker Block Building from this weekend. I never noticed the Coke sign on the side of the building before. It's not too visible from the street, so it must predate the adjoining Nolen Ulven building, built in 1926 which currently houses Maxwell Food Supply. I'd recommend getting all your spatulas at Maxwell. It's a mostly unnoticed gem in downtown Sioux Falls.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Day One...
Good morning Sioux Falls! Today dawns the first episode of what will hopefully be a blog to unite our neighborhood and the city into saving a valuable historical piece of our nationally renown city. We welcome all comments and encourage them as well. We will be more than happy to add any links of interested sights with the same or parallel goals as ours.
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