Saturday, March 8, 2008

The Fake Street


Looking East down Maxwell, originally uploaded by kendoman26.

This is the "new" Maxwell street, While pretty and much better than what it replaced, it's some what "fake".

What I mean by being "fake", well, first lets start with the street. See that red brick road well that's fake. It's asphalt painted red and designed to look like bricks. The streetscape is somewhat "fake" as well. The facades of buildings located on Halsted that weren't going to be saved were reused on the structures along Maxwell. In the end I guess this "fake" streetscape is better than used hupcaps being sold around garbage cans set ablaze.

1 comment:

Tom Gill said...

I agree. It looks nice, but it's not authentic!