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Scenes from Front Royal’s Labor Day weekend downtown walking mall
From East Main Street restaurants, artisan exhibits to Gazebo and Chester Street live music and a Virginia Beer Museum Fish Fry and candidates get together punctuated by live music it was a weather friendly environment for locals and visitors alike from Friday, September 4th thru Monday, September 7th.
Street scenes from the new walking mall configuration allowing thru vehicular traffic entering and exiting the Village Commons parking lot from all three points on East Main, Chester and Laura Virginia Hale Place, as well as vehicular access to Crescent Street on East Main from Royal Avenue.
Enjoy the view…
A beautiful Saturday greeted visitors to historic downtown Front Royal Labor Day weekend 2020; below, at least 15 people are pictured within a block of the Main-Chester Street intersection. Royal Examiner Photos by Roger Bianchini
Outside seating was popular at downtown restaurants, as here at Soul Mountain Café …
… right next to which Main St. Pawn proprietor Ralph Waller, along with Duane Vaughan were caught holding court with two town council candidates, Bruce Rappaport, left, and Darryl Merchant.
Five doors down Chester St. several campaign signs were displayed in front of David Downes law office, next to which Downes’ Virginia Beer Museum was hosting a Town candidates’ appearance at Downes’ ‘Beer Party’ Saturday afternoon Fish Fry. Below, council candidate Josh Ingram, left, takes advantage of the invite.
As did Rappaport, pictured here at Biergarten fence/parking area doorway to the building that once housed his family’s The Boston Store.
Above, Union re-enactors from the 2nd Wisconsin unit make a flanking maneuver on the Va. Beer Museum’s ‘Helltown Saloon’ to celebrate an annual victory at the Cedar Creek battleground in Frederick County earlier on Saturday. Below, the Wisconsin 2nd surrounds Front Royal’s Confederate Museum Curator ‘Dewey’ Vaughan. Happily, a truce was reached over a beer and some fried fish.
By Sunday the Va. Beer Museum’s fried fish was gone and two hungry dogs were on point for a taste of Redz Downes’s steak.
Having survived the 2nd Wisconsin negotiations, Vaughan re-formed a perimeter at Chester and East Main with Rappaport and Merchant, the latter who may be pointing to …
… an Artisan walk artist’s table being prepared nearby …
… or John Landis’s From the Heart band set up a couple doors down Chester St. through the weekend outside John’s Barbershop …
… or Hank Gorecki and Ralph Fortune set up Sunday afternoon in the Beer Museum Biergarten – is Ralph going flattop on us? …
… or Famous Last Word’s Marie Price and Jon France entertaining at the Gazebo Sunday afternoon.
And for those with difficulty walking or transporting materials at the East Main St. Labor Day weekend walking mall, we caught White Picket Fence/Key Move Properties Sue and Chris Laurence offering some mobile assistance, by way of a cart donation from the Blue Ridge Shadows Golf Club.
