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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Sort of a quick then-and-now.. A newspaper ad from February 1980, advertising a new home at the back of Little Neck.

And the same house (different angle), 40 years later..

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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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This random light pole caught my eye, because it was listed as property of Vepco, which is the long-gone name/predecessor of Virginia's Dominion Energy.

Looking closer, the Vepco sign made sense, the pole was apparently manufactured in 1978. Seems like a long life for a pole. A (cool) surviving monument to Virginia Beach 1.0's Vepco days. I'm curious, if someone who does street light work, etc knows: do light poles typically last this long (45 years and counting)?

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eating in Lynnhaven Borough.

 

Hurd's (seafood restaurant) inhabited the back of the Little Neck area for decades..

At the time, the area was not incorporated in to Virginia Beach, so it's location was characterized as Lynnhaven (Borough). Today, there is still a Hurds Road located in the area.

In the days when MasterCard was still mastercharge.

I like this hand-drawn art on their menu cover.. and check out the prices~

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This month (January 2023) marks the 60th birthday of Virginia Beach (the independent city). 

I bascially inherited a 1983 issue of The Beacon honoring Virginia Beach's 20th birthday.. attached are some old ads from the print celebration.

This is an old, defunct spot.. from Bonney Road 1.0.. I think it was located where the extended stay hotel is at now.. I appreciate the hand-drawn art & lettering in it. Ironically I illustrated a couple ads for The Shopping News when I was a young guy, and The Shopping News' office was located on Bonney Road.

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Remembering the opening of Virginia Beach's Great American Outlet Mall.

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