The Hill, and CWE

Ahoy, ahoy. Over this past weekend, some friends and I rode an overnight century (the exploits of which you can read here) where we started at 10PM and ended around 7AM. Totally sweet. As we were rolling west through the CWE on Laclede Ave, I *happened* to glance down as we were passing through the deserted intersection at Euclid, and magically noticed a pair of blank dominoes, right in the middle. I didn't have time to stop and take photos then and there, as we were all super hungry, but I did come back the next day.

Laclede and Euclid

I don't often ride through this intersection, so this was a very fortuitous find.

The next day when I hopped on my wheel and rode down to snap some photos of the CWE location, I took a slightly less flatter route down Brannon when I normally would stick to Macklind. This was also very lucky, as I noticed ANOTHER set mere blocks away from two more locations on the same stretch of road. I can't believe I've never noticed them before! The interesting thing about this is that this single domino looks like it had most definitely been part of a pair - you can see the domino-sized/shaped cut-out directly adjacent to the remaining one. This is at Brannon and Parker, on the east side of the intersection:

notice that piece of straw sitting in the cut-out.

Brannon and Parker

Strange how when I go look for one, another pops up. Perhaps this is all a conspiracy by PuzzleWarehouse in Kirkwood.


On an slightly-unrelated note, a fascination I have is the remaining vestiges of our city's old street-rails and the vast streetcar network we used to have. These lines were completely gone by the mid '60s. Having spent much more time riding around the city the last few years, I've started noticing that the old rails are still there, they have just been paved over. And if you pay attention, you noticed where they are poking back out. Like when position myself to check out the domino at the Laclede/Euclid intersection, I noticed a rail that has completely surfaced - and you can follow the cracks in the pavement for the length of the block where it wants to bust through:

Much like the dominoes, these rails pop up everywhere, so you might start to see me post more of these up.