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- M3A1 Scout Car
- Troubleshooting
- 5th Avenue North and 20th Street
- 20th St N & 5th Ave N, SW corner
- Clubs vs Gyms
- Black romance
- Norris Lake
- A splash of color anyone ?
- High voltage indeed.
- DANGER: time stopped ahead
- Norris Dam and reservoir
- One suggestion ...
- My hoist is bigger
- A lesson in composition
- +83
- +83
- +83
- +83
- +117
- Now I'm Satisfied
- A Barrel Of Laughs
- "Direct From European Triumphs"
- 10th Avenue bridge
- Now it's water under the bridge
- Millers and sawyers
- Two Saints walk into a bar ...
- Building ... what?
- Wondered Where Her Life Went
- Psst ... don't turn around
- Somebody
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Low Speed Rail: 1903
Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1903. "Main Street streetcar." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
It Sure Doesn't Look That Way Now
This bucolic look was gone by the 30s, and currently, this is a very unpleasent looking urban district. Details on the decline, and attempted rebirth of this neghborhood are here, with many pictures:
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2011-sep-walkable-commercial-di...
What you see today
In close-in suburbs you occasionally see an orphan road separated from the main roadway by a narrow green or concrete strip. This photo explains it: when streetcar rights of way were converted to roads, what had been the auto lanes got cut off, with little use except for local access and parking.
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