Various Places Along Dr. Martin Luther King Drive and Side Streets

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Dr. Martin Luther King Drive is actually a collection of a couple of old major thoroughfares, including Franklin Avenue and Easton Avenue. It’s sad to drive along this street in the blocks on either side of Grand Boulevard.

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While there are occupied businesses, with pride in their painted signs, there is much abandonment.

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Houses still fall to the wrecking ball on the blocks nearby. This house below looks to have been a partner in at least two other rowhouses. They’re all gone now, save this one.

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This house was renovated to a single picture window, probably sometime in the 1950s and 60s. It sits here now, badly mutilated.

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