DATE: Monday, November 3, 1997              TAG: 9711030270

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 

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1940: BANK STREET AND CITY HALL AVENUE

This 1940 photograph of the intersection of Bank Street and City

Hall Avenue, looking east, records a whole slice of old Norfolk that

has gone, All of the area on the left on the picture is part of the

acreage that will be included in the MacArthur Center mall. Notable

among the no-longer-standing buildings to the left is the former

VEPCO downtown Norfolk plant. The brick chimneyed houe beyond it

still housed a blacksmith's shop until a few years ago. Notably

absent today on the right-hand side of the picture are the former

office of the Clerk of the Norfolk Corporation Court and the north

end of the City Jail. At that time a few of the elms on the Court

House (now the MacArthur memorial) lawn were still standing. Also of

interest are the vintage automobiles. The crooked line of City Hall

Avenue follows the creek bed of Town Back Creek that formerly

extended to Church Street.

- George Tucker

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