"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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UglyDan®©™ wrote:
Strange, I remember "America's original downtown" as a working
waterfront, Sunset creek to Hampton river were jammed with trawlers,
crab boats, fish/oyster packing and crab picking houses, with the
exception of Hampton Yacht club, and then it was just a "BIG" old house
on pilngs. till they moved it ashore.
Minus the sewage/waste water runoff, I prefer the old waterfront.
Reminds me of whats happening to Ballard and Fremont. UD



O'm really trying to place the area...I recall that as you are traveling
to the tunnel, just north of the entrance there's an area with a bunch
of almost derelict steel trawlers mayble a half mile away...I wonder if
that is the spot?

No. The Hampton River is to the West (opposite direction those trawlers are)
of where the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel reaches the shores of Hampton, Va.
The mouth of the river is narrow and not seen from out on the Bay as you
cross Northward. But farther up, I-64 makes a large overpass across the
Hampton River, and you can see some of facilities from the Interstate at
that point. The Hampton waterfont has been quite attractive even before this
improvement, and the Air & Space Museum is also right in the City
Marina/Park area.

Jack Painter
Virginia Beach, Va