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*** former location of [[Rainbow Gardens Cafe]] ([[Robert Nix]] –1961)
*** former location of [[Rainbow Gardens Cafe]] ([[Robert Nix]] –1961)
** east side:
** east side:
*** 1813: [[Carlock Honda]], formerly [[Freeway Honda]]
*** 1829: [[Trinity AME Zion Church]]
*** 1829: [[Trinity AME Zion Church]]
* [[19th Street Ensley]] intersects
* [[19th Street Ensley]] intersects
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*** [[Tuxedo Terrace]] public housing project (no access)
*** [[Tuxedo Terrace]] public housing project (no access)
** east side:
** east side:
*** 2001–2029 (addressed as 1813): [[Freeway Honda]]
*** 2001–2029 (addressed as 1813): [[Carlock Honda]], former location of [[Carlock Honda|Serra Honda]] (built 2008), [[Carlock Honda|Freeway Honda]]
* [[20th Place Ensley]] / [[Avenue R Ensley]] formerly intersected
* [[20th Place Ensley]] / [[Avenue R Ensley]] formerly intersected
* [[21st Street Ensley]] formerly intersected
* [[21st Street Ensley]] formerly intersected

Revision as of 09:11, 6 December 2023

Ensley Avenue, looking north at Avenue U. Photograph by O. V. Hunt.

Ensley Five Points West Avenue, formerly Ensley Avenue, is a road which connects Five Points West at Bessemer Road (U.S. Highway 11) in Central Park, northwest through Ensley Highlands and Tuxedo to 15th Street Ensley near the former Councill Elementary School in the eastern part of Ensley.

Before the late 1940s, the avenue was divided with a streetcar track in the median. Where the avenue crested two hills, the tracks ran through cuts supported by retaining walls on either side. During the 1950s those areas were leveled and the entire median paved to create more lanes for traffic.

Notable addresses (north to south)

Ensley

Ensley Highlands

Central Park

References

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