Day 1022

A meeting of worlds

October 17th, 2014



This house (which is named Portview, according to another tablet opposite the one above) is located at the intersection of Sunrise Terrace and Occident Avenue, and its current address is 6 Sunrise Terrace, implying that it once stood like Istanbul or Damascus at the crossroads of Orient and Occident.

(This 1907 map [look at the bottom left] confirms that this block of Sunrise Terrace used to be called Orient Avenue.)


One Comment

  1. Karen Too says:

    Always enjoy the background info, and related links, that you provide here.

    Fascinating.

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