What Do You Mean I Have To Have A Title?!?!?!
Pretty sure Louisville is the largest small town in the country. We're supposedly (according to Wikipedia) the 28th largest city in the US but you still can't set foot in a bar without running into at least one ex. There's half a dozen blocks of skyscrapers and the rest is just sprawl.
I say supposedly because if you consult five different sources you'll get five different totals for the city's population. Is it like that where you live too? It's wild, they range so much (300,000 to over 1 million) that you start to become suspicious that nobody knows how to count.
When I moved here back in 2004 they were claiming Louisville was the 16th largest city in the US. People would get downright prickly when I would suggest that their math was may be a little suspect. The city and county had just merged a few years prior, gave the city quite the population boost on paper but it was just a new way of counting. Explaining that if other cities counted the same way we'd be much further down the list went over about as well as Fox News calling the election for Biden.
Upon further reflection, I'm not sure why I bothered, nobody is worried about silly things like methodology these days anyways. Much better to go on #WednesdayWalks in the park(s).
Looks like this blog isn't the only thing going on a detour. Now where was I going with this?
Right. #Thisiswhywecanthavenicethings. Kids these days . . . keeping old traditions going.
Sometimes the more you look at it the more you start to wonder about people. Who can translate interpret this? The other side of the sign was explaining the construction going on nearby but this side just left me with more questions.
Like what's with shoes hanging from power lines? It's not exactly an uncommon sight but I've yet to discover the how's and why's of this coming to pass.
Don't know what it is about cities but it seems as if the closer people live to one another the more isolated they are from each other. I grew up in a rather rural area before moving to the largest city in the state and it was as if I'd swapped physical isolation for social isolation. Anyone else ever have that experience?
Enough rambling, time to fly! Photos are all from Iroquois and Cherokee Parks here in Louisville.
https://www.reference.com/world-view/shoes-hanging-power-lines-mean-16fca680cad21664
On one hand that reads like an urban legend, but on the other most of the places I've seen that could check any or all the boxes in article.
funny there are shoes on the electric rope. who put it. 😀
That's a question I would like to know the answer to as well 😀
hehehe.. yes friend. I think many people don't know the existence of the shoes on the electric rope.
Louie who, vile? Never heard of'em.
They didn't add the vile part until after he lost his head I think. Before that they just used a zip code for a last name.
great photos and read, no I cant make sense of that writing on the back of the sign
for the shoes hanging on powerlines I was curious about that myself and have heard a few things, marking a gang zone, and also could be in memory of someone who died and that further sometimes being if the death is gang related, and then found some other things I forget but those two were the most common explanations
Thanks for joining the Wednesday, its always fun for me to visit the walks from all around the world, getting a feel for communities where people live and what they see on their daily walks
Thank ya! Yeah, the drawings got my attention but it was the writing that made me take the shot.
preparedwombat pointed me towards this which basically says yes to all of that and then some.
Been to Louisville.. Loved every second of it
Great pics :)
Ah, nice! What brought you to this neck of the woods?
Thank ya!
An IBEW bowling tournament.. So much fun.. Mrt a ton of great People
Hell yeah. Got a couple friends in the local here, they're good people.
yes sir.. Nice bunch :) We were the only Canadian team and were treated like Kings and Quees.. Great place.. I loved all the trees and hills on the way there to.. Beautiful State :)
Amazing shots!! Nice reflections and very particular scenes!
Thank you!
Hahaha
The shoes on the electric rope got me wondering how it got there. Is that a concept? Is it a fashion or what for?
Ha, yeah, I still want to know how you even throw them to get them like that. According to reference.com (thanks @preparedwombat )
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