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Chattanooga, Tennessee, circa 1907. "Market Square." Beneath a cat's cradle of streetcar wires, we have a nice selection of restaurants and dental parlors. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Chattanooga is a favorite daytrip for me, and I just figured out where this is. It's kind of depressing because only 100 years later it looks absolutely nothing like this. On the left side of the street in the picture, the stone building kind of hidden behind the "Stewarts" sign now stands alone empty in a parking lot. At least things seem to be improving in downtown Chattanooga. Maybe the 21st century will treat this block better than the 20th century did.
Look at the men on the sidewalk in the lower left corner checking out the woman crossing the street!
The message made clear in this picture is that small business has been subsumed by big business during the 20th century.
This picture is truly depressing. Depressing for us in the lack of enterprise that today's society reflects.
I looked at this photo for a long time looking for a bar or beer delivery and thanks to Jimmy Longshanks and his ability to spot the beer wagon this picture is complete.
Faultless Lager Beer, what a name. How did you order a glass -- "I'll have a Faultless"?
Here in Belgium, several middle sized cities kept their streetcars until late in the last century. I remember that the streets of Binche, where my grandparents live, had such a crisscross of cables above them, up until the late 1990's, when they removed the streetcars.
Answering the question: what happens to the titles that won't even sell in the bargain bin?
Delivery truck in the left foreground is from the Chattanooga Brewing Company.
I think you are talking about my sons. Eat here, get gas.
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