Jay M. wrote:Brad Keeton wrote:I've been screaming light rail that runs at least from downtown to the Highlands, Crescent Hill, and Old Louisville for years.
You were just born about 50 years too late. This is Bardstown Road in The Highlands a few years ago, my friend:
Is that picture at Bonnycastle? I walk it every day and it looks REALLY familiar....
Bialy's (sp?). Yeah, grew up in chicago. They are great....
I can't remember the name of the bakery, but if you're in Skokie (just north of chicago, one burb from the lake) take dempster (big street) just past Old Orchard Rd (there is a McD's at that intersection). On the south side of the street, before you get to the skokie swift train tracks (yes, public transit, novel concept), there is the best bakery in town. Best bialy's certainly, and plenty of other goodies. I drove past there daily during my college summer day job, and always picked up fresh baked goods for my family (what a good kid I was). I'll try to post the name, but you could find it from this info if you're in the Evanston/Skokie neighborhood. Evanston is where I lived (Northwestern University). The bakery is less than a mile off the interstate I-94. From the interstate, Dempster exit, head east, it'd be half a mile (maybe 3/4) on the right. Looks like a mini-strip mall (only a couple stores).
Edit: whoops...hadn't read ahead...Cool. Bonnycastle confirmed. That is the nice thing about walking, you notice the neighborhood, the shape of the buildings, etc. Wish we still had streetcars. My grampa told me about them when he was growing up in Chicago. When I was in Prague (1990, and 2005) they were everywhere. Buy a weekly pass, hop on and you're where you need to be fast. (they have underground/overground trains for longer trips). Don't want to get political, but "who killed the electric car" discusses some of the issues and is amazingly relevant as we pump billlions of taxpayer dollars into our auto industry and "roads/bridges." Someday they'll come back. Check out Prague, and you'll agree.....