Since the bridge is over an expressway-like trench of Columbus Drive, shoveling the snow onto passing cars is not an option and the Brazilian hardwood would be damaged by rock salt.
But now, huge perforated banners and painted wall murals have arrived to make Houston Street feel less like an expressway, more like a town square -- complete with graffiti, the most ancient form of outdoor advertising.
While some of the earliest hits, like "Expressway (To Your Heart)," are more generic, Philly soul soon came to specialize in intensely romantic music — the Delfonics, the Stylistics, and lesser-known groups like the Ebonys — and upmarket protest soul.
I worried that the album didn't have one of those lengthy, broken-open garbage bags of noise, a song like "Expressway to Yr. Skull," from 1986, in which all the dragons and feathers and firecrackers and water pistols get to run free.
The Columbia Gorge has been like an expressway for hard-blowing wind since long before the turbines arrived.
This week, as millions left the cities for an annual pilgrimage to villages where they venerate the souls of their ancestors, many were likely to be stuck in 40-mile traffic jams on oven-like expressways, cursing the midsummer heat.Such misery is common during the Buddhist festival of Obon, but it is worse this year.
The quintessential Wings victory parade would begin on the bobsled-run-like steps of the Joe, move past the giant statue of Joe Kocur's fist on East Jefferson, continue out into the suburbs where the team's fan base is, ease onto the expressway and, just like the local economy, slide quietly out of state.
'An amazing view," the pal says, looking out of the vast plate-glass windows over the Gherkin, St Paul's and ribbon-like expressways, "is a bit like a good-looking husband.
'An amazing view," the pal says, looking out of the vast plate-glass windows over the Gherkin, St Paul's and ribbon-like expressways, "is a bit like a good-looking husband.
Hits like the Soul Survivors' "Expressway to Your Heart" (1967) and "I've Been Hurt" (1969) by Bill Deal and the Rhondels emerged from a field of white soul performers that included Bob Kuban and the In-Men, from St .Louis, Missouri; the Box Tops, from Memphis, Tennessee; and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, from Detroit, Michigan.
He managed to create things that looked utterly improbable and fantastical, by sheer force of will". The Midtown expressway made the cut: Mr. Morrison liked how the elevated highway burrowed through buildings, reminding him of a monorail that he had ridden in Sydney that whizzed through department stores.
