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A Rare, Quiet Moment On The 500 Block Of 10th Street
Traffic, construction, tour buses, and tourists. On their own each of these may be a nuisance (although not the tourists dollars, we love those); but when combined with a one-way street, partially closed sidewalk, souvenir row, Hard Rock, and Ford’s Theatre you have entered the most miserable block in Penn Quarter.
We dubbed this stretch of PQ Tourists Alley back in 2007, and that certainly hasn’t changed. Only mildly annoying in the winter, this street has become impassable at times now that the tourists are in full bloom.
Of course unless you want to eat at Bistro D’OC or Lincoln’s Waffle Shop, or maybe see a show at Ford’s, this is an easy block to avoid. And as noted above this is a small price to pay for the money generated by all those visiting our fair city. But every so often we get lost in our thoughts on the way to the office in the morning and turn the corner onto 10th. When we make that mistake we get a quick reminder on why it is always smarter to continue on to 11th.
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LOL – I agree with Laura G! I love walking down this street despite the groups. It’s also usually pretty easy to get across the crosswalks on a red light, since car traffic is pretty low.
Not to mention the FBI building if you head down 10th one more block. The security lends a tension to the air, and the VIPs’ security details navigate their black SUVs the wrong way up 10th to get into the FBI parking garage. I just witnessed two SUVs do that this morning.
I do like the gas lamp in front of Ford’s. gives the street an old time kind of feeling. much like @LauraG’s comment.
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this will probably become less true as tourist season hits full strike, but i actually intentionally head down this street on my way to work. i can’t really explain why, and sometimes the tourists are too much for me, but for some reason, i really like it. i enjoy it even more after dark on my way home, when i think it feels like a piece of history.