The Flickr October2023 Image Generatr

Plastic buckets, metal barrels, cardboard boxes. Plastic mats on a bed of crushed stone. Gas meters. Dirty area.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a utility enclosure outside the "Fish Bones Restaurant and Seafood Buffet" at the "Four Points by Sheraton Virginia Beach Oceanfront" at the northeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and 12th Street.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was an entrance to a parking garage at the Oceans Condominiums (built in 1975 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) on the east side of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60), north of 40th Street.

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October 2023

I was grateful for the break in auto traffic but I wished the road were shorter.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a view to the north from the west side of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60), north of 15th Street.

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I was grateful for the break in auto traffic but I wished the road were shorter.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a view to the east from the north side of Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58 Business Spur), east of Arctic Avenue.

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This was an exemplar of "what it looks like to have a large vacant lot in the 'old part' of Virginia Beach."

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a view toward Dominion Energy's Atlantic Substation from the north side of Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58 Business Spur), east of Arctic Avenue.

Per Google Streetview, the foreground expanse was formerly occupied by an Exxon station. Per my review of Google Earth historical satellite imagery, it was demolished sometime between November 2021 and April 2023.

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I have always had a soft spot in my skull for parking lots, this reminded me. This one's bleak but I like it.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a parking lot at the southwest corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and Winston Salem Avenue.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a sycamore tree on the north side of 21st Street between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Avenue.

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Streetpalms of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic are more likeable than streepalms of the U.S. Sunbelt, on account of their being less common in the Mid-Atlantic.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a palm at the driveway of the Seahawk Motel at the southeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and 26th Street.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a landscaping bed at the "Quality Inn & Suites Oceanfront" at the southeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and 8th Street.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a patch of landscaping on the north side of 12th Street between Pacific Avenue and Atlantic Avenue.

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Here were disused picnic tables, yellow-painted stucco walls, international flags, wine, sunglasses, a mannequin's legs, service windows with roll-down doors, a bollard.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was an alley between Sunsations (left) and Sunrise Pizza (right), on the west side of Atlantic Avenue between 23rd Street and 24th Street.

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Grayish blue, pale blue, and white were the tiles. Vertically enframed was an evocation of smoke in orange, brown, and yellow.

This was in 2023. According to Google Streetview, the tile façade was remodeled to this appearance sometime between February and May 2016, at which time the tiles were either installed(!) or revealed, and the orange artwork was hung, replacing stucco painted beige and black. Here, see it when it was new.

By January 2025 the tiles were gone, either removed or covered.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was the exterior of the former "Chemistry Tapas & Tonics" on the west side of Atlantic Avenue, south of 22nd Street. The building is from 1930, according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov.

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I was about to take a ride on Hampton Roads Transit: Here came the bus!

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was King Neptune's 3-D Blacklight Mini Golf at the northeast corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and 25th Street.

The building was built in 1945, according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov.

According to Google Streetview, the mural was painted sometime between 2007 and 2011.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was King Neptune's 3-D Blacklight Mini Golf at the northeast corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and 25th Street.

According to Google Streetview, the mural was painted sometime between 2007 and 2011.

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Unfortunately its glossy red concavity calls to mind a particular Shock Meme I saw involuntarily on multiple occasions in the 2000s-2010s. All these years later and my brain is still poisoned!

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a chair outside "Sugar Shack" on the west side of Atlantic Avenue between 24th Street and 25th Street.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, were the Nightmare Mansion and the ILoveVA gift shop at 2008 Atlantic Ave (built in 1929 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) at the northwest corner of Atlantic Avenue and 20th Street.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was the "SureStay by Best Western Virginia Beach Royal Clipper" (built in 1966 as the Royal Clipper Motel) at the southwest corner of Atlantic Avenue and 36th Street.

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The Travelodge driveway is a porte-cochère.

It might be stupid of me, but I choose to regard the reflected sunlight as a gesture of the Ramada's respect and gratitude for the Travelodge.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was the "Travelodge by Wyndham Virginia Beach" (built in 1968 as the Mardi Gras Motel and Apartments) on the west side of Atlantic Avenue, south of 29th Street.

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It was missing four of its pale blue panels of exterior insulation finishing system!, but I still loved it because I love pale blue.

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, were "The Shops" at "31 Ocean," a mixed-use development including the "Summer House Apartments," at 300 Laskin Rd (built in 2013 according to city property records at propertysearch.virginiabeach.gov) at the northwest corner of Pacific Avenue (U.S. Route 60) and Laskin Road.

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