Car Shops

616 West Main
843 West Main
Starr Hill Automotive 864 West Main
Empty lot at West Main and 9th Street, used to be Bradley Peyton III




315 West Main
1311 West Main323 West Main

Where Main Street Market is today

Team Tires

1001 West Main

These pictures and ads from 1962 help to show that there were a number of auto shops along West Main, but over the years have mostly relocated to suburbs like Pantops. Empty lots are left on the street, not creating a sense of space or a community, leaving West Main as a corridor.

Sources

The Daily Progress 13 April 1962.

KELLERCO Inc. for the City of Charlottesville, Virginia. West Main Street Corridor and Downtown Traffic Circulation Studies. Tysons Corner, Virginia: KELLERCO Inc, 1988. Prepared for: City of Charlottesville, Virginia.