As a number of people have mentioned, Google has put up their street view of Richmond. While my lovely wife was exploring it she checked out Buzzy’s and saw some beautiful people out front. Check them out:
That’s us and our good friends Ryan and Aoife standing out front talking, forever memorializing us as Church Hillites and Buzzy’s addicts.
Update: Turns out Alicia found out about us in the photo from this CHPN post
It is a strange and disorienting experience to take the virtual version that follows one of the routes I take from office to house each day. The West Broad and North Robinson Street stretches seem to have been photographed toward dusk, perhaps on a weekend?
I don’t see many people out on the sidewalks. The streets are deserted except for a few cars running with their headlights on.
I register this emptiness when I’m enjoying my pedestrian pleasures, I guess, how I can saunter along several blocks and not see any one enjoying the bloom of spring on the bosky Fan streets. I am reminded of a blog some visiting Chinese students kept and a theme running through their observations was the lack of people in the streets–but compared to Shanghai, I guess Richmond would seem deserted.
Still, using this Google Maps view, I’m reminded of that “Omega Man” film with Heston, or maybe “28 Days Later.” Weird.
A bicyclist here on Robinson, a woman talking on her cell phone near Floyd and Robinson, and on the street where I live, nary a soul stirring. Eerie — kind of like GoogleMaps itself.
That’s crazy, you are so cool!!! Who is taking these photos for Google?