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"Spitzer Building, Madison Avenue, Toledo, 1905." The former hub of downtown Toledo's legal community, this red-brick edifice completed in the 1890s is now vacant and in disrepair. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
The car on the left if definitely a single-cylinder Curved-Dash Oldsmobile with the steering tiller in the raised position for easy exit/enter; and looks like it has a bicycle bell on the tiller in lieu of a horn - the car on the right is a Model A Cadillac or Model A Ford (they were virtually identical, and no, I'm not talking about the Ford Model A of 1928-31)
Is that a curved-dash Oldsmobile under the "El" in the El Belmont sign?
The steering tiller can be seen. Does a car like that "steer", or does it "answer the helm" ?
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