Lloyd’s Tenth Avenue Apartments
Lloyd's Tenth ( 10th ) Avenue Apartments
What would make search engines find this piece easier, I wonder? Should I call it Lloyd’s 10th Avenue Apartments or Lloyd’s Tenth Avenue Apartments?
I was going to write about them the other day, but I mentioned a VW GTI, and then I was three paragraphs into GTI’s and still hadn’t mentioned the apartments yet. So I wrote about GTI’s.
I was rambling. I’m rambling now.
Two signs on the outside refer to the building at Lloyd’s 10th Avenue Apartments but in the window by the entrance it says “Lloyd Park.”
The apartment building is made of dark brick, split in the middle by a sidewalk that leads to the office and (presumably) the entrance. On each side, a fire escape comes down the outside of the building.
All of the window frames are white. The tops of the bricks beneath the windows are white, too. All windows have horizontal Venetian blinds. No curtains. No diagonal blinds. No shades. No variation. One would think there would be some sort of variation.
There are lots of short trees and bushes, plants that could make up hedges. Earth in between. The building looks clean.
In back are the trash cans. The only reason I mention that is because there are a few chairs next to the trash cans. I saw this at another place, too. What are the chairs for? Do people sit by the trash cans and smoke cigarettes?
What a pleasant view.
The address is 1609 NE Tenth Avenue. It’s in the Lloyd District, of course, right behind the Fire Department on Weidler. You can see Bank of the West from the rear of the building. Across from Lloyd’s Tenth Avenue Apartments is the parking lot for Wells Fargo and Pier 1. Safeway’s parking lot is about a block north, across the street from Village Inn. Lloyd Center’s parking lot is just next door, so it’s on Halsey.
Directly in front are two giant trees. I would have taken better picture, but those trees were in the way and a couple parked right in front just after I took this photo. They stayed there for a long long time.
Aah. Young love.