VWs preserving history

[TDCTDI]

It doesn't need to be dilapidated or abandoned (But my Ghia doesn't look out of place near one. ). I just try to keep an eye out for interesting old structures. In my area, old buildings & houses are getting torn down to make way for the new, flashy, boring new construction & I have to go out to the rural areas to find older structures, which usually need to be leveled. Unfortunately, since the rural areas weren't as flush with money, this usually means simpler, smaller homes & buildings.
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[Beetlebaum]

I took my '73 Super on its first-ever landmark hunting trip in Virginia Beach this morning (and realized that I need to park the car until I fix the exhaust leaks...whoops).

Here's the Cavalier Hotel at the Virginia Beach oceanfront, one of the most iconic structures in this city. It was recently refurbished and saved from demolition, but I still haven't been inside it yet. The hotel is more than ninety years old and even housed soldiers during World War II, I believe. It also had its own railway back in the day, but that has long since been removed.

You can read more about the Cavalier here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/hotels/2018/08/15/cavalier-hotel-virginia-beach/980993002/

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[Dwayne1m]

I have a timeshare in VB but I'm at the south end of the beach. More quiet down at that end. You need to get a pic with the Cape Henry Lighthouse since you're in that area.

[Beetlebaum]

[TDCTDI]

[Dwayne1m]

I got some of them covered bridges in my area too. We don't have problems with vandals. Instead we have problems with idiots driving thru with vehicles that are to tall, or backhoes on trailers that wipe out the roof of the bridge.

[Beetlebaum]

Nice Beetle. What year is it?
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[Dwayne1m]

[TDCTDI]

Today I decided to visit a nearby "castle" that was built by a local artist who abandoned it before it’s completion, Castle Mont Rouge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Mont_Rouge

On the way back, I was enticed by a historical marker to check out this old plantation home called Stagville, built in 1787.

Perplexed by why this home was of such importance that it should have a dedicated staff & tours, I asked the ladies in attendance “What is the significance of this property?”. They told me that it was the first home of the Cameron family. Okay, whatever. Upon strolling through the museum, I realized it was sooo much more than that, this was one of the largest slave holding plantations in the south with around 30,000 acres & over 900 slaves by 1860.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagville
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[Dwayne1m]

I always liked those big plantation homes in the south. Not sure how warm they were in the winter though. That was a lot of space to heat with just a fire place.

[TDCTDI]

[busdaddy]

[Dwayne1m]

[Q-Dog]

[TDCTDI]

Here’s another little general store/gas station south of Spring Hope.

I bought a bumper from the owner & got some history on it. It was built in 1921 & owned by the property owners father and ran as a Texaco/Sky Chief until 1959.

Interestingly, he mentioned that the station closed down due to a change in law regarding permits, this leads me to believe that this is the reason why so many of these old gas stations/general stores all seem to have simultaneously forgotten in one moment in time.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

Here’s another old home that I’ve watched languish for 25+ years, this one is off highway 64 near Siler City NC. The construction equipment nearby suggest that it will make way for highway widening.

And it’s barn.

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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[Dwayne1m]

These look like they were nice homes at some point. I'm surprised they continue to just stand there and nobody tears them down or buys the property and builds a new home. Just odd to me because I just don't see abandoned homes or buildings like you show in my area.

[wcfvw69]

[Dwayne1m]

[oprn]

There are literally thousands of old abandoned farm site here where I live. Just a few still have the buildings still standing. The trend over the last 50 years has been away from small family farms and to big corporate ones. That trend is accelerating at an unprecedented pace so the abandonment of houses here continues. These days though the new owners are generally pretty quick to bulldoze and burn the farm yards to reduce liability and increase farmable acreage.