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Michigan Mystery #2 Solved

Submitted by mamyers on Sun, 08/26/2012 - 5:50pm.
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I located a street view from the other side of the street of the Congress Bar. When you compare both photos, you can clearly see they are looking down the same direction. There's a train bridge going over the street in the distance and some of the signs on the left side of the photo match up. This is 128 Silver Street in Hurley, WI. Here's the Google street view today http://goo.gl/maps/EmKED As you can see, the Congress Bar, as well as that entire side of the street is now a parking lot. The Trolla Meat and Grocery is now the Hurley Coffee Company. I googled in "Trolla Meats & Groceries" and found an old newspaper ad from the 1936 Ironwood Daily Globe http://newspaperarchive.com/daily-globe/1936-05-15/page-6/ It had their address which is how I was able to locate the current street view. Thanks for all your input. View full size.

I located a street view from the other side of the street of the Congress Bar. When you compare both photos, you can clearly see they are looking down the same direction. There's a train bridge going over the street in the distance and some of the signs on the left side of the photo match up.

This is 128 Silver Street in Hurley, WI. Here's the Google street view today
http://goo.gl/maps/EmKED
As you can see, the Congress Bar, as well as that entire side of the street is now a parking lot. The Trolla Meat and Grocery is now the Hurley Coffee Company.

I googled in "Trolla Meats & Groceries" and found an old newspaper ad from the 1936 Ironwood Daily Globe
http://newspaperarchive.com/daily-globe/1936-05-15/page-6/
It had their address which is how I was able to locate the current street view. Thanks for all your input. View full size.

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Yep, that's Hurley

Submitted by sgolob on Sun, 11/17/2019 - 7:27pm.

I worked a telecommunications project in the area back in 2003. At the time, bellying up to a bar was my hobby. I was always amazed at the density of adult beverage stations in this small town. I never counted them but my alcoholic intuition tells me there were at least 60 bars on Silver Street.

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