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- He was proud to be.
- There's a great future in plastics.
- They like holding hands and pitchin’ woo
- On the tracks to the left --
- Ham and ... hosiery?
- Spring fresh
- Nada Naugatuck view
- Still there, indeed
- Now Fort Drum
- Still there
- Armour's Star Brand
- Never again
- Hats off to him
- Razed, not blazed
- The height of luxury
- Fifty bucks says I can make the green
- Gone.
- Long way to Anywhere
- Lonely Road
- The font is everything
- Beautiful
- Woody's Words
- Nope, not that one
- Looks Like the 5
- Pre I-5
- Hairy Road
- Potential
- Paley in the Framed Pic?
- How quaint!
- Tobacco sponsors
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Peoples Drug No. 2: 1921
Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "People's Drug Store, 7th and E Sts." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
The Lions and Sashes Survived!
Careful examination of the building (from another angle) shows the continued vitality of those lion faces and stone "sashes":
Insurance man
The man in the third floor window of the Washington Insurance Agency appears as if he is looking right down at the person taking this photo. I like the looks of the old building so much better.
Moneyball
Devoting a full window to cigars shows where the profits are.
Shorpy Detective Agency
Pre air conditioning, awnings were a key method of temperature control. They're also a good way of identifying south-facing sides of buildings for Shorpy Detective Agency operatives.
Dick Tracy villains
Two Face and the One Legged Blur!
Security Chain
This might be the first time I can remember seeing a bicycle chained to something in these early Shorpy photographs! Must be a bad neighborhood?
Like the Cheese Shop sketch
The display windows of People's Drug Store No. 2 are certainly uncontaminated by drugs.
All grown up now
Ubiquitous Awnings
Awning sales and service must have been big business back then.
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