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Homebound? Can’t make it up to the shops on 45th Street but want to window shop? Never fear, the Internetz are here!

Our friend Rusty has been working on a project, Real Places, for some years now that allows people to take Google Street View-like tours of the inside of buildings and such, and he’s featured Wallingford’s 45th Street early in its development. Click that link and take a stroll through Sock Monster, Fainting Goat, Not a Number and more.

As long as you’re taking virtual strolls, you might want to give this beautiful VR Gallery a peek, including a moody, pensive view of 35th and Burke, an eye-popping infrared view of Gas Works park and a cool visit with our neighbor, artist Rollin Thomas.

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Jordan

I started Wallyhood back in 2008, right when my son was born, because I realized I had lived in the neighborhood since 1993 and didn't really know my neighbors. I figured writing a blog about what was going on around me would be a good way to meet people and help other people do the same. As the years progressed, those neighbors have picked up the torch and it is now a group effort, which I adore. I moved out of Wallingford for a few years (2020 - 2025), but I'm back, now living with my wife, son and dog (Dillinger) up in Tangletown.

This Post Has 5 Comments

  1. Tara Katz September 8, 2010

    Soooo cool!
    Any chance my schools can be on that tour? How wonderful for parents to see Oliver, our pig, and his girl friends, the hens.
    Please let me know if it would be possible!!!

  2. Michael Suzerris September 8, 2010

    How does one get featured in a virtual tour? The inside of OmCulture located on the corner of 35th and Bagley is really something to behold — not what you’d expect from the rather drab exterior. Although the pumping permaculture garden on the Bagley side of the street is worth a gander!

  3. rusty September 9, 2010

    Hi Tara and Michael,

    Thanks for the comments. RealPlaces walkaround tours can be created almost anywhere that is accessible to someone with a camera. And once created, we have a widget that allows you to *very*easily* add tours to your own web site.

    Please contact us to let us know what you’re looking for:
    http://realplaces.com/AboutContact.php

  4. b September 10, 2010

    If you are going to use one of my images to illustrate a posting about your friend Rusty and his business “Real Places”, it would be proper to clarify that the image posted and the VR images linked to in the second paragraph are made by a completely different person whom you failed to even mention.

  5. Jordan Schwartz September 12, 2010

    Sorry Bradford, the image was meant to illustrate the article, not Rusty and his business. He’s paragraph 2, you’re paragraph 3.

    Everyone else: the image is related to the third paragraph, not the second. The artist’s name is Bradford, and if you click the thumbnail included above, you’ll see that, because it links to the page of his work that includes the image. His VR photography work is phenomenal, you should check it out.

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