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I keep heading into the Joyland neighborhood with high expectations.  After all, this is a neighborhood that sits on the site of an old amusement park.  It should be fun.  This portion of the neighborhood feels much like similar neighborhoods from the 1950’s and 1960’s.  There were two things that stuck out to me today.  The first is that these streets feel wide, even by the standards of the era.  They aren’t really wider than streets in, say, Rookwood.  But with low houses, flat lawns and few trees in the tree lawn, it feels wide open.  I really want to draw up sectional views of different streets to show what a dramatic impact house height, setbacks and trees can have.  The second thing is that neighborhoods from this era feel stuck in time, more so than much older neighborhoods or slightly newer neighborhoods.  I’m not sure why this is–demographics may be a factor–though it seems to be fairly consistent.