Love all the bizzare facts you listed above
I never heard about that apartment on Pennywell, would love to see a photo, seems a little crazy that it was built and tore down within a decade, nuts!!! Regarding the street cars, there's a massive pot hole on the west end of Water St. now and underneath it you can see see the old raillines, they just paved right over the top of them, I should go back down with a camera, put me in a big daydream though thinking about how it used to be and how cool it would be to have a railcar through downtown again, would be great for tourism and very functional for getting around downtown
The Masonic Temple has new owners, looking forward to seeing plans for their renovations, I was in there years ago and remember being a little freaked out at how spooky the place was inside.
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