Vine Street is a thoroughfare in WestminsterLondon. It features as one of the streets on the standard London Monopoly board. Westminster is the area located immediately to the west of the ancient City of London, in the centre of the wider conurbation of London. ... St. ... Monopoly is one of the best-selling commercial board games in the world. ...
The street is short and narrow, consisting mainly of the rear facades of buildings facing onto other, mor salubrious, streets. The only major establishment, the Vine Street Police Station, is now closed.
As one of the stops on the popular London Monopoly Pub Crawl, where participants must consume a drink at a public house on each of the locations of the standard London Monopoly board, it is notable for the lack of any sort of licensed establishment. There are, however, a number of hotels within sight of Vine Street.
Pulpiteers mustered their stirring invective in picturing applegate's carrousel, at the northwest corner of Franklin and Vine, as a place of sin and temptation outrivalling Sodom and Gomorrah, and no parental injunction was so strongly impressed upon the youth of respectable households as the admonition to shun this spot as a plague.
Across the street at 810, William Boothby laid the foundation of a fortune in an oyster house noted for the excellence of its viands.
West of twentieth Street, the industrial district along the Schuylkill has made encroachments here and there which have served to blight the domestic atmosphere of the street, though the residents nearest the course of the invasion, in the section between twenty second and Twenty-third Streets, are putting up a valiant fight.
However, the 1945 "VineStreet Expressway" report did not specify details on the route west of the 30th Street Station area, except that the expressway was to be carried on a viaduct over the Pennsylvania Railroad yard.
The VineStreet Expressway was to be the northern part of the Center City loop that also comprised of the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76), the Delaware Expressway (I-95) and the unbuilt Crosstown Expressway (I-695) along the South Street-Lombard Street corridor.
The VineStreet Expressway would be a continuation to the west of the present state highway project (VineStreet widening) being constructed from the Delaware River (Benjamin Franklin) Bridge plaza.