Vietnam memorial

This memorial to the Vietnamese people is at Preston and Somerset.

Murals

Preston is the home of Ottawa’s Little Italy. The people there have painted murals in their Queensway underpass. Many of them demonstrate the pride this immigrant community takes in an honest day’s work.

Look at this guy struttin’ off with his lunchbox!

Lots of welding.

Some of the murals show a community celebrating its traditions.

Here’s a real person who happened to be walking through the underpass. She better be careful or she might go through that painted door and pass into a mural.

Prescott

This is the Preston hotel, forerunner to the modern-day Prescott. It looks like the kind of place where they make the gin in a bathtub. And you don’t want that guy mad at you.

These are the neon signs in the windows of the Prescott. I’ve had a meatball sandwich. They are coronary-inducing but delicious! And the famous pizza is really pretty good.

Lutheran cross

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