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Shelton Square: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 7:00am.
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Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "Shelton Square -- St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Prudential Building, Erie County Savings Bank." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Traffic Lights
Submitted by nukjam on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 4:52pm.
Notice how the sign above the road says "cars stop here"? It would be six more years until the first traffic lights were installed in Euclid, Ohio. Nice picture of my home city!
["Cars" refers to streetcars. -tterrace]
Thanks for the update tterrace, didn't even think of that!
An Adler & Sullivan beauty!
Submitted by Droptma Styx on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 3:09pm.
Love the Prudential building. Built in 1894, designated a National Landmark in 1975 after a fire and near-demolition, restored in the '80s through the aughts ... its one of those buildings you wouldn't know was important until you looked it up. Long may she stand!
Erie County Savings Bank demolition
Submitted by Gspitz on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:05am.
The Erie County Savings Bank, at left, was demolished in 1968. Sad photos here: http://tinyurl.com/7s9bnkk
What a cool old building compared to what took its place: http://tinyurl.com/7k43ylu
The Message From Above
Submitted by Mr Mel on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 2:03pm.
I'm sure the top floor window lettering trumpeting the New York Central RR were probably read mostly by migrating Geese.
Mystery solved
Submitted by HamiltonTransitH... on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:04pm.
Thanks for posting this photo, you've cleared up a mystery in the Hamilton (Ontario) Public Library's photo collection.
In the collection there's an unlabelled photo of a streetcar, which was used in a 1909 Hamilton Times article to illustrate the new streetcars that Hamilton would be getting. The streetcar was numbered 5150, and is a perfect match to streetcar 5192 in the photo above.
Wells Fargo
Submitted by auntjess on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:46am.
It's interesting to see a Wells Fargo Express office this late, and this far east, although I see by the company history this was so.
Do the horse-drawn wagons in front of the office say Wells Fargo?
Is it possible
Submitted by Ice gang on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 9:58am.
that church steeple is made entirely of bricks? if so, who was the guy that put the last brick at the top, yikes!
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