We’re off!  The first Main Street for the day is in the city where we stayed the night, Winchester Virginia.  The town’s Main Street is situated in a mobile home park that looks like it is only a few blocks long.

We turn into the Shenandoah Mobile Court off of Highway 522.   We park the car and get out.  Main Street is a dusty dirt road with about 10 mobile homes on it.

The mail center at the Shenandoah Mobile Home Court on Main Street in Winchester, VA.

They’re big and look new.  We see a woman talking animatedly on the phone and walk over.  It’s morning on Memorial Day so it looks like a family is out lounging on they’re porch.

We meet Christy Rasmussen and talk with her.  Turns out that this is Patsy Cline country.

“She’s buried down in the cemetery down the road.”

Christy is there with Jake Sanfino and Jake’s mom, Cindy Reedy.  Jake is probably the most articulate thirteen-year-old I have met.  Jake’s a big booster for Winchester.  He should run for city council some time.  There’s a lot that goes on in Winchester according to Jake:  the Apple Blossom Festival, for one.  Christy talks about how celebrities come to Winchester, too.

Christy Rasmussen sips coffee on Main Street in Winchester, VA.

“We won’t name any names put we had a party with some of the Washington Redskins who came through town one night.”

Christy and Cindy tell us that times are a little tough right now.  A lot of places in Winchester are closing down.  Circuit City, Linens and Things,

“One place closed and they didn’t even tell anybody.  Just locked their doors. “

Christy lost her job too as a dispatcher recently.

We ask them to describe the Main Street they live on.

“This is Winchester’s Main Street?  This isn’t a Main Street. This is just a mobile home park. Not a lot going on here.   Kids play here, up and down the street.  A lot of times people just pull in and turn around.  Or they park their car.  You see that black truck over by the mailboxes? A group of teenagers on Friday rolled up, jumped out, ran over to another truck and just drove off.  That trucks been there since Friday.  They’re out partying somewhere for Memorial Day.”

A look down Main Street in Winchester, Virginia.

Christy thinks it’s funny that we’re documenting this Main Street and talking to them.  “This is just trailer park.  There’s nothing here.  This isn’t interesting.  This isn’t Main Street.”