One down, one to go

It is hot out today. Like 90 degrees hot. If the small dog didn't start dying of heat and laying down in every tree shadow there was, we could've walked forever today, but I didn't feel like killing the little boy.

My goal today was simply to finish all the streets on the easterly side of Carew, and we have met that goal. We headed down Carew to Armory, across I-291 and down Liberty to Genesee. We turned left from Genesee onto Franklin, because we needed to finish that from the other day. We turned right onto Leonard, and followed that around to Belle. Belle has some cool looking apartment buildings:



We followed Belle to the end and back again, turning right onto Cass. At the corner of Cass and Franklin is the Bilingual Veterans Outreach Center.



At the corner of Cass and Liberty is the Pentecostal Bethel Church.



We followed Liberty down to where it met Franklin, finding along the way Sitterly Moving and Storage, the Hampden Brass and Aluminum Company, the Tri-State CDL Training Center, A Better Storage and N. Winer & Son.











Sitterly Movers has been operating in Springfield for over 75 years. Impressive...but not as impressive as Hampden Brass and Aluminum, which was incorporated in 1903 and provides aluminum die-castings, extrusions and molds.

Across Liberty from these fine establishments is Tri-State CDL Training, for those who want to learn to drive the big trucks. Down the street from that is N. Winer & Son, who, as the photo suggests, wholesale in dairy products. Back on the side of Liberty we were on, a new storage business just opened, A Better Storage.

We turned right onto Franklin, which at this end hosts mainly city-supported housing. The main offices of the Springfield Housing Authority are located on Saab Court, which we checked out briefly before heading back to Liberty.

At the end of Liberty where it meets Chestnut, sit the Springfield YMCA and the place I like least in my city, the Registry of Motor Vehicles.





The Springfield YMCA is used by thousands of people every year. So is the evil RMV, I suppose, but I think the Y would be more fun.

We turned right onto Chestnut and followed that over I-291. We came across the Spanish Christian Church Educational Center and the Spanish Christian Church.





When we got down to Chapin Terrace, we followed that up to the park and hung out there for a while, watching a rugby game, before heading home to cool off.

128 down, 95 to go