This is the Little Rock itself, buried under the abutment for the Junction Bridge but at least still intact and visible. And hey, contributing to its city.


Apparently more famous than a gas station ought to be, 14th St. at Park St.


Coming up on Central High School, just to the southwest of that Mobil station.


Central High, on S. Park St., is large enough to have a reflecting pool in front. It's clearly gigantic. But what's most notable is not what you see. This is the site of a famous test of integration in the South, where the Little Rock Nine were blocked from entering their own high school in 1957 by the Arkansas National Guard, deployed by the governor in support of segregationists across the state and region. Federal troops were called in, and most of the students completed the first year. Then the governor closed down public schooling entirely to avoid further integration. It seems that by the 1959 school year, all was settled and the city progressed from then on.


Turning onto W. 16th St. and then Jones St., circling the fields behind the school. The school was built in 1927, the stands in 1936.


Villa Marre, built in 1881.


The state capitol.


The Robinson Auditorium was built in the 1930s. The second building and its closeup are the Old State House.


Two of the 1925 Lafayette Hotel on Louisiana St., one of the Mathis Building that is now home to a cryptically Hebrew restaurant.


As downtown as it gets, Capitol Ave. at Main St.

The Old Mill in North Little Rock
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