| Everywhere you look cities are refurbishing portions of | | | | nearby Naval Academy. West Street is within walking |
| their neighborhoods. One such place is located in | | | | distance of the Academy and is now a favorite place |
| Annapolis Maryland. It is a place called West Street | | | | for some of the midshipmen. |
| and it once was a block of decrepit buildings and | | | | What is now a street full of wonderful places to eat |
| people who may have been seeing some hard times. | | | | and exquisite shops, was once home to a handful of |
| It now is a shopping district with restaurants and is a | | | | restaurants, if that, and a lot of people who mostly |
| place that is a hangout for people who are having | | | | made deals at night. A face lift this complete even got |
| good times. There are quaint stores where you can | | | | rid of the power lines. The Annapolis Visitor Center is |
| find everything you need from food to clothes to gifts | | | | also now open to all visitors, both to the academy and |
| for those visiting the nearby Naval Academy. While | | | | to the City of Annapolis, a city full of history. |
| renovating, there are lots of ways to use refurbished | | | | One of the places resurrected from the old |
| point of sale products to help save a dime and still | | | | neighborhood is Ram's Head On Stage and is a place |
| have modern equipment. | | | | that radiates music that makes the street come alive. |
| Not only are the stores getting a new life but the | | | | This along with a string of characteristic restaurants |
| streets also were fixed so people don't bottom out in | | | | and unique stores is a great place for the locals and |
| the pot holes bigger than the whales often seen off | | | | the visitors. The most distinctive attribute about this |
| the coast. Along with reusing something like an IBM | | | | face lift and continued thriving neighborhood is that it is |
| point of sale terminal in some of the districts stores the | | | | staying local and not turning to the big chains. Along |
| quaintness of the area was maintained. It truly is a | | | | with this vision comes good business sense. This |
| makeover only this time to a street rather than to | | | | means using the best possible point of sale products |
| some lucky winner of a contest. The real winner in this | | | | to run their business. It is a sight to see and well worth |
| one is the general public, some of which attend the | | | | a visit. |