And horses! 😃

And people doing anything downtown

Roads are for cars, damnit! I need to be able to drive my rust bucket Honda Civic around all parts of downtown while blasting my shitty music so that the world knows how fucking cool I am and how big my d*ck is

RI had a vast trolly system. It’s not uncommon here in Warwick for people to find railroad spikes.

just another prime example of how the city continues to punish us for the convenience of cars.

Comments on original post are humbling, no one knows who we are.

And apparently less potholes. Bring them back!

Back when the past was electric.

Way back, it was a cow pasture, stock yard. To move the cows, they said " Wey Bossy". An English thing. Now you know we're it came from.

I'm skeptical. Weybossett looks too much like an English rendering of a Narragansett word, like many RI place names.

man providence would be 100 times better with an actually decent public transit system. im currently living in a city with a metro and it is the best thing ever lol, makes me think of prov

this is completely false, it’s a narragansett term for a river where three trails meet.

Look it up, used to be a peninsula there, etc. Like early 1700s. I was told that by guy at historical society but who knows where it's derived from.

The oldest street traversing downtown Providence, Weybosset Street curves along its length, intersecting with Westminster at the northeast end. The origins of Weybosset date back to the Pequot Indian Trail, which originally traversed the southern edge of Weybosset Hill

Love these compare/ contrast images

And one of them was called desire.

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