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Valpo is divided in two parts. On one end there is the old town where many of the banks and family owned stores reside. This is also where many of the residents of the town live in standard gridlock systems of roads, many one way streets, and two floor houses. Further down the main roads of Lincoln Way and Morgan Blvd is a separate business district, one encompassing all the needs of the residents of supplies and food. Aside when the Popcorn Day Parade comes around, there is very little activity compared to the other side of Valpo.
The other side to Valpo is almost the complete opposite. What were once open corn fields and farm land in the 70’s is now a complex of mini malls and plazas littering the zone between interstates 2, 30, and 49. And what college community wouldn’t enjoy the comfort of a Wal-Mart, Target, or Menards? It seems to start early on in the student’s college career. The first day in Valpo is usually spent in the east end of the town at the local Target, or a little further south at the Super Wal-Mart (at some point the executive branch of Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club felt it was the best time to close the old one and build it better right next door). Once the first day of supply shopping is over, the new side of town has you hooked right thereafter. It is the familiar aspect of the stores I think that draws us in, a place that most Americans visit freely from day to day. There is no time or need to explore such places like downtown Valpo when uptown lays the EB Games and Pizza Hut we crave for most of the semester.
Valpo is divided in two parts. On one end there is the old town where many of the banks and family owned stores reside. This is also where many of the residents of the town live in standard gridlock systems of roads, many one way streets, and two floor houses. Further down the main roads of Lincoln Way and Morgan Blvd is a separate business district, one encompassing all the needs of the residents of supplies and food. Aside when the Popcorn Day Parade comes around, there is very little activity compared to the other side of Valpo.
The other side to Valpo is almost the complete opposite. What were once open corn fields and farm land in the 70’s is now a complex of mini malls and plazas littering the zone between interstates 2, 30, and 49. And what college community wouldn’t enjoy the comfort of a Wal-Mart, Target, or Menards? It seems to start early on in the student’s college career. The first day in Valpo is usually spent in the east end of the town at the local Target, or a little further south at the Super Wal-Mart (at some point the executive branch of Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club felt it was the best time to close the old one and build it better right next door). Once the first day of supply shopping is over, the new side of town has you hooked right thereafter. It is the familiar aspect of the stores I think that draws us in, a place that most Americans visit freely from day to day. There is no time or need to explore such places like downtown Valpo when uptown lays the EB Games and Pizza Hut we crave for most of the semester.
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