From: jishnu@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   On 8/18/2014 8:31 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Monday, August 18, 2014 6:01:13 PM UTC-4, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's just concrete block but functional, with an   
   >> Amtrak ticket agency, heated and air conditioned and a lot nicer than   
   >> having no station at all.   
   >   
   > Thanks for the info.   
   >   
   > In South Shore books, there are a number of pictures of the station   
   building, but it doesn't look very inviting--covered with security bars and   
   looking like a police station or jail.  Ugly concrete block.   
   >   
   > In some pictures of the waning days of the actual South Shore station, the   
   neighborhood looks like it had seen better days.  In google streetview today,   
   the area looks deserted, with some buildings torn down, and others converted   
   to social service uses.   
      
   All I can say is that the area around the station has seen worse days   
   than now. I have traveled to SOB pretty much at least once every other   
   year by the Lake Shore or the Cap for the last 20 or so years, and have   
   seen the area around the station first decline and hit bottom and then   
   slowly start to recover.   
      
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