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This placard explains the purpose of this garden not far from a place of learning.

Automobile traffic passes by non-stop, yet very few people get out of their cars to enjoy this gem, located prominently on a major street. Where am I?

Yesterday’s photo, Continue Reading…

Did you know Lockport had a Federal Building? I didn’t.

This is one of those places everyone called by another name. If you can’t guess it, or don’t know already, you’ll laugh because it’s so obvious. Click on the photo for another clue.

Yesterday: The cannon at Altro Park, or as we will forever call it Willow Park because that’s what it was called when we grew up there and it’s on Willow Street in Lockport. The cannon is at the corner of Willow and Cottage.

Massive metal, painted black, sits silent, waiting at a Lockport corner.

When I was a kid, and dinosaurs roamed the earth, this used to be a favorite spot to sit, climb and hang out. The grass around this spot was worn away from use and many a bump and bruise was gotten falling here.

Today, I rarely see anyone give it a second glance. The park it sits in seems to have more to offer in its brightly colored swings, slides and playground equipment, all of which is safe and soft plastic, not dangerous metal like this metal dinosaur.

A tribute to a war long gone, there is no plaque to commemorate it’s placement here. Yet it sits, large as life, as the biggest example of it’s kind in Lockport.

Where am I? Read tomorrows walkabout post to find out. Continue Reading…

This round circle of concrete sprouts grass from the cracks in it. It seems like it has been there forever, but once was a water storage tower. Today, it sports a monument honoring Fallen Heroes.

Do you know what this is? Click the photos for another clue. The answer will be given tomorrow.

Yesterday… Continue Reading…