rainbow_row charlestonian girl i could never understand why one line of houses in charleston is any more special than any of the other houses in charleston. why is this line of houses a tourest attraction and why is it the subject of so many refridgerator magnets buttons and postcards? all of the streets in charleston have houses that look like that. all of the buildings in town are painted technicolor. i was told that once the houses of rainbow row were like brothels since they are very near the harbor for the sailors and traders and one day someone bought the houses and fixed them up and made them into nice nonbrothel type houses. i cant count the number of transformations in houses that occured in charleston over the centuries. what is now the ghetto used to be one of the nice parts of town. you can tell by the remains of the signs and the decaying archetecture. many of the nice homes in the rich parts of town were once whore houses or drug centers or whatever. hence my problem with the facination over rainbow row. you want to see some amazing houses and transformations go up north king street.(but only in the daytime) and see the age see the buildings of old stores see the houses in the neighborhoods and try to imagine how fantastic they once were. 010808 what's it to you? who go blather from