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LIGHT RAIL TO NAVY BASE - right past, or through, Glenwood Park. There's a better map in the Virginian-Pilot today, and...
04/11/2016

LIGHT RAIL TO NAVY BASE - right past, or through, Glenwood Park.
There's a better map in the Virginian-Pilot today, and it's making me a little nervous. If someone could post it on the other site (GLENWOOD PARK), it would help show why there's some questions.
The western route comes from downtown, but has more against it, environmentally. The eastern route comes down Military Highway, Little Creek road, and Hampton Blvd., and is favored because of developing all those areas.
But the eastern route seems to go through the 1st block of all of the Park. Almost down Laurel Avenue. Sure looks that way. And it would be an end to the houses near to Laurel, including my old family home, and near to that.
I know it's 4-8 years away, but, wow, what an ending. I hope someone can copy the newspaper map to the other site, so people could see what the apparent danger is.

**** edited to note: I called HRT, and the lady said, nothing is settled. As far as time frame, 8-15 years, but possibly sooner. I asked if any part of the Park would be used, and she said, everything is on the table. Including the above, and also, going behind the Park.

This is from a National Geographic story about how the Lost Colony split into 2 groups, one moving north. You can just ...
08/09/2015

This is from a National Geographic story about how the Lost Colony split into 2 groups, one moving north. You can just see, at the top, the location near to Glenwood Park, but more towards Lynnhaven. Maps then, notoriously sloppy. Am still hoping to find the George Tucker column which showed the mass burial ground of them, and their friends, the Chesopean Indians, about where the new shopping center is, across from Beechwood Avenue. Powhatan invaded that area and did the slaughter.

Here we go, the long awaited ground-breaking for an interstate spur, north of Glenwood Park. The I-564 Intermodal Connec...
07/22/2015

Here we go, the long awaited ground-breaking for an interstate spur, north of Glenwood Park. The I-564 Intermodal Connector will be a huge project, that will eventually hook up with the Patriot Crossing, a 3rd tunnel to Hampton. If there's an on ramp, at Hampton Blvd., you could get from the Park to the Suffolk countryside in 10 minutes.
The Park has been becoming prime real estate, and, now, it's future will certainly be a cubby-hole surrounded by vast roads and changes. Scary. Not like the old sleepy days.

Well, the clean up of the Lafayette River has been working !The dolphins are coming back. This photo from 2012, but baby...
07/13/2015

Well, the clean up of the Lafayette River has been working !
The dolphins are coming back. This photo from 2012, but baby dolphins were seen a few days ago.
Back 100 years ago, they probably also came in to the estuary that was reduced to Boush Creek. Back in the 'hood - couldn't stay away :) .....

In so many ways, Navy Housing, next to the Park, was also our neighborhood. Found this old photo, but it doesn't show h...
07/01/2015

In so many ways, Navy Housing, next to the Park, was also our neighborhood. Found this old photo, but it doesn't show how crowded the streets became, before the new complex was built.

This photo is from I Grew up in Norfolk (credit to Rob Schonk). The Park is up to the left, and so I thought it might co...
03/31/2015

This photo is from I Grew up in Norfolk (credit to Rob Schonk). The Park is up to the left, and so I thought it might could go here, as part of early photos. By the way, the old civic club had tons of old photos, but where they've gone to, don't know.

02/11/2015

Well, I'll get into trouble on this one, but it's long over-due. Why is the other Navy port, San Diego, a garden city, and the sailor's preference over Norfolk?
Land use. And attitude. The Norfolk Naval Base and air station were built at a time (World War II), when questioning was considered unpatriotic. As a consequence, Norfolk went along with anything and everything.
For a while, it helped the economy. But the jobs in the last three decades, that are high-paying, go to people who commute from the suburban cities of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.
And, even as a Navy brat, myself, I have begun to question why the area around Glenwood Park is being squandered and misused. Do they really need 2 golf courses nearby, one of which is prime real estate?
Do they really need the huge sprawl south and east of the main complex? And sub-standard housing ?
I remember when the old Ben Morell came down. Acres and acres of beautiful land; you could have ridden horses there. And they put up sub-standard junk housing that is already rotting away.
It can't be unpatriotic to wonder why the Navy isn't asked to give back some land. The evidence is there: San Diego. Good partnership. Great for the Navy, great for the city.
Gosh, I know it's a pipe dream, but I would love to see some of the forests restored, and, yes, a pull-back, so Boush Creek was civilian again and free-flowing and good fishing.
Any who think this is stupid, should check their memories. In our day, we had wild life, forests, and even a stream. They have been lost to unnecessary, casual, bloated misuse and abuse of our good will.

Credit to "I Grew up in Norfolk", Joe Leatherman. Photo from 1939 (?). This goes to much of Glenwood Park's history, fo...
11/21/2014

Credit to "I Grew up in Norfolk", Joe Leatherman. Photo from 1939 (?). This goes to much of Glenwood Park's history, for that little Boush Creek we all knew, was always, before, a huge inlet, and that's why there were boat houses at the end of Glendale, Forrest, and Beechwood. All of this great inlet was filled in to build the Naval Air Station. When I did research for the Navy toxic waste commission, found that there was a running stream, for 8,000 years before the inlet. The Indians must have had great fishing !
To figure locations out, upper right is Willoughby Spit.

Here is one account of the crash. Anyone interested for better details can search for "dirigible crash/Roma/Norfolk, an...
11/21/2014

Here is one account of the crash. Anyone interested for better details can search for "dirigible crash/Roma/Norfolk, and there's a Wikipedia entry.

This is the wreckage.
11/21/2014

This is the wreckage.

Thanks to Mike Credle for finding this on the I Grew up in Norfolk site. This is the hydrogen dirigible Roma, which cras...
11/21/2014

Thanks to Mike Credle for finding this on the I Grew up in Norfolk site. This is the hydrogen dirigible Roma, which crashed over the Army supply center at what is now Hampton Blvd., and Terminal Blvd. It was 2/21/1922 and 34 people died, making it the worst air disaster before the Hindenberg. I often passed that corner on my walks, and never once knew !

This is just wild and crazy ! Can't confirm how close to the Park sand dunes were, but some maps here, and others, show ...
09/13/2014

This is just wild and crazy ! Can't confirm how close to the Park sand dunes were, but some maps here, and others, show odd ripples to the area NE of the 'hood. And had they been left still there, just think of what we would have done with skim boards, as we grew up. Heck, even after we grew up. This one is tagged as near Cape Henry. But, there are recurring proofs, there were others nearer to us.
Photo credit to Tim Parsons of I Grew up in Norfolk, and special thanks to Dottie Brady and Mike Credle.

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Norfolk, VA
23505

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