More updates to Hillsdale...
County Lane is now solid Street System, complete with sidewalks on both sides of the road.
The look continues past the pet shop and Salvation Army shelter, where Tom and Gary sit while waiting for the free lunchtime meal.
There is now a proper driveway entrance to Tony's Garage. Made by splicing two driveway sections together, it is wide enough to accommodate the large tow trucks that will be entering and leaving the lot -and the delivery trucks that will be present in throw-back scenes when it was still a farm supply company.
There is also a small entrance on the other side; eventually, a small business or building may wind up here.
An improvement that was made was to glue the sidewalks overlapping the street sections; this made alignment of the sections much easier without having to actually glue them together as was done with the downtown intersection. It is much easier to handle one foot sections of street than three foot sections!
Several buildings on Market street have swapped places; these two buildings are now at the end of the block, replacing the library. Also, the painted cardboard of the alley has been replace with Busch parking lot material; this is an adhesive-backed soft thin foam that I cut and applied to the foam base.
The new location of the library can be seen at the far right; the other buildings are back in their old locations, but closer together. While most of the alley is Busch street material, I still needed a small piece of the old cardboard to fill in the corner behind two buildings. Now, with the street permanently attached, I no longer have to constantly re-position small pieces every time the board gets bumped!
One more change to Main Street. While the large warehouse hasn't changed, it now has an owner; Ginete Organic Foods. This billboard, of course, was located along County Lane at the base of the hill beside the Budweiser billboard. I made a small cardboard base on top of the warehouse (two Walthers Armstrong Electric Motors kits) to accommodate it. The Budweiser billboard is still in its old spot on County Lane.
One more look at downtown next week; more changes!
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