#downtown charleston

[mlucerophotography]

Life in Downtown CHS

Charleston, SC. October 2022. Photos by M. Lucero.

[downtownmushroom]

My recent photography phase has been kicking in! Beginning to take interest in photography and art altogether haha! These photos are simply token in ally ways of downtown Charleston, which I highly recommend if you want to relax in a cafe or just need to make money since the place is quite busy with people, and a photo of a church. The art gallery’s in downtown are amazing so I highly recommend to visit downtown Charleston’s market and galleries.

My apologies as well for not posting, for I am quite the buddy bee lately. Since Christmas break is starting tomorrow I shall try posting more art and more photography~! I wish everyone of you little mushrooms and merry Christmas or happy Hanukkah! Love y’all~ stay safe!

Have a good morning/afternoon/evening/night! ❤️🎨

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[emcroissant]

Let me just see something real quick...

Charleston, SC, technically has a bus system. It's CARTA, and it's free, but it's not really a bus. It's more of a shuttle that travels around the peninsula in a circle route, mostly catered to tourists.

But it's a million degrees in Downtown Charleston today, and the path I needed to take does not have much shade.

So I decided to take the bus.

Bad idea. Very bad idea.

It started off fine. I got on, along with a bunch of cruise ship tourists who have no idea how to get around this city that's 2 sq. miles at the most. Whatever. Since the bus only goes in a loop, I know I'm gonna be on there for a while.

Flash forward to my stop. In London, I knew that I had to press the red button to let the driver know I needed to get off. I press that. I see that a "Stop Requested" sign has lit up. I think I have been successful.

WRONG.

I stand up and step toward the bux exit, only to watch as we drive idly by my stop. Then the next. I started to panic, so I pulled the yellow wire that I didn't even know worked anymore. It doesn't. The driver then tells us we have to YELL that we want to get off and that she's not going to stop at every stop (despite there being people waiting for the bus as well).

Finally, I got off the bus and had to walk 3 blocks to my destination instead of the 30 seconds it would have taken me if I had been allowed off at my stop like I wanted.

Charleston has NO efficient public transport. The bus is too unreliable, and it's not an actual transportation system that I can take to any desired destination.

Charleston streets were never designed for cars, yet we squeeze them in there.

The horses who pull the carriages are abused and forced to work in the sweltering heat, but they're not used for transport either.

The bike taxis up-charge people, especially if you're "bigger" or not as pretty. I've watched and witnessed it firsthand.

Biclysists run off the road and are not given safe buffers to ride on the road. If you want to be able to ride your bike Downtown, you have to basically be a speed-racer and super skinny so that you can squeeze between moving and parked cards.

Pedestrians and joggers are not safe either. They're hit if they go into the streets, which is sometimes necessary due to the narrow and uneven sidewalks. They're hit when they're on the sidewalk, too. Nobody is safe.

Charleston has the tracks for a trolley system, but they have been buried beneath pothole-filled asphalt.

And what was once a bustling railroad depot is now long gone. To get to the suburbs around Charleston, you have to have a car. They were supposed to start building a train from Downtown to the town where my parents live, which would have been great! But no. They've shortened the proposed route, but I have a feeling I'll never see it in my lifetime anyway.

[ryan-smith-photography]

Downtown Charleston wedding with a reception at the historic Francis Marion Hotel

[vaultsnakes]

Exterior - Siding

Mid-sized minimalist white three-story mixed siding exterior home photo with a metal roof and a gray roof

[rabbitcruiser]

Benches/Chairs (No. 53)

Savannah, GA (four pics)

Charleston, SC (six pics)

[fieriframes]

[So I'm here in Charleston, South Carolina, on the very busy Savannah highway just a few miles out of downtown to check out a joint]

[brechtian]

it is funny I have all these signed first edition books bc I was never thinking about profit or even the possibility of giving them away/selling them I was just a kid whose Thing was books and they’re all I ever wanted and I lived next door to one of the biggest book signing festivals in the US

[hotelbooking]

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[cinader]

Vanessa Lee-Miller, Yvette R. Murray

Tony Robles interviews two poets, Vanessa Lee Miller in Great Britain, and Yvette R. Murray in Charleston, SC. And… some spoken word recordings by Vanessa Lee-Miller, Katherine Dunn, Reg E. Gaines, Q.R. Hand jr., Yvette R. Murray, Avotcja and Lord Buckley

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[mlucerophotography]

One October Downtown...

Charleston, SC. October 2022. Photos by M. Lucero.

[cameronlockhart]

One problem with living downtown is that oftentimes delivery trucks have no choice but to park in front of your place during their routes. For me, a hookah delivery van is constantly parked in front of my house, and I can't imagine what some of the neighbors might think. 😬

[walledcitytours]

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