Evening view of downtown Greenville from Wade Hampton Boulevard
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
When the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk aloneGreen Day – “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
The joy you find here, you borrow,
You cannot keep it long, it seems.
But gigolo and gigolette
Still sing a song and dance along
The boulevard of broken dreams.Nat King Cole – “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Two shadows in the moonlight
Dance silently along the boulevard
Of dreams
TonightDada – “Boulevard of Dreams”
A boulevard isn’t just any old street. According to Wikipedia, it is a “wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare…often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery.” Naming a road a “boulevard” means that it should be something special, something to evoke poetry and song as noted above. Some cities are known by their more famous boulevards – the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Sunset Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, and Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, for example. Greenville has Wade Hampton Boulevard.