Neptune and Triton Ave's

To understand how the right of way goes after this point, we need to talk about a street that doesn’t exist anymore, but evidence shows where it was, and another street that was relocated to where we know it exists today.

Here is a old map showing Triton and Neptune Ave's

The circle on West 6^th street is the Neptune Ave stop on the Culver line. Here you see it labeled with its original name, Van Sicklen, named after a local hotel that hasn’t existed for decades, but the stop still used the hotel as its name. To the left (west) of the station is Triton Ave. Here are some photos that show you were Triton Ave existed in relationship to Neptune Ave train station.

In the photo on the left is a house on Shell Road with a lamppost circled. The photo on the right is a close up of the street names on the post. The following photo was taken right beneath the street lamp post facing Neptune Ave station.

This would be the view facing east if Triton Ave still existed today, and right in the middle is the Neptune Ave station on the culver line. Now here are some photos from the other end of Triton Ave facing the same lamp post with the street names.

The above two photos, one taken with a zoom lens, the other not, shows the same house with the street lamp. Sign post circled in the distance. Here are two more photos taken under the Culver line showing curbs for a street that doesn’t exist anymore

The photo on the left is facing north on West 6^th Street, photo on the right, facing south.

Going back to the old map at the top of the page, Neptune Ave turned into Triton Ave when it crosses West 6^th Street. So here is what old Neptune Ave looks like today.

So when I show you the next couple of photos, try and think how Neptune Ave used to run to understand the historic photos better.

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