Couple pics of the old bank building, at the corner of Princess Anne Plaza's parking lot. Looks like it's marked for remodeling.. or extinction. It was kind of a monument to the elegant banking of the past. With most people doing online, or ATM banking, direct deposit, etc. now.. I don't think you'll see these large bank branches built anymore, as signals of brand strength.

An old Princess Anne Plaza ad from the early 80s, listing a pair of banks. that could've inhabited this building around 1983. I think at one point in the 90s, it was also a Nationsbank.

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This was a cool building that had been on Virginia Beach Blvd for a long time..

There was a nice bait & tackle shop at the front, the back and side was basically a small business park (I guess as part of Birchwood's larger business park there). Looks like a church was one of their last tenants.

The recent, regrettable end of that building. I saw that Atlantic Bait & Tackle did relocate, and rebrand tho..

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For many years, there have been a couple of houses on Virginia Beach Blvd (near Hobby Lobby and Chesopeian Trail).. To me, they always embodied an earlier era in Virginia Beach's history, when it wouldn't have been out of place to build a residence facing what incrementally became a much busier road. Don't think there are many of these residential homes remaining/preserved right up on the boulevard.

The width of this trunk, looks like the tree had serious age on it.. the listing for the house in the background had it's construction date at 1930. 

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