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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
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Summerville: 1906
1906. "Main Street -- Summerville, South Carolina." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Survivalist Buildings
What interests me in these street scenes are the grand-buildings that still survive, in a country where tearing down the old is a way of life. The 1897 O.C. Sires building with its unusual tab-like permanent "Post Office" and "O.C. Sires & Bro" signs is apparently still there, though no longer housing either. Same goes for the neoclassical shop building with its triple, center arch second-floor windows over four storefronts.
The park is still there, but not the train station
The tree-lined area remains, sandwiched between Little Main and S Main St. It includes Hutchinson Square, a park in the city center. The colorful train depot toward the back of the image is no more.
No longer a Small Town
Summerville was a peacful little town in 1900 with a population of only about 2400 people.There are now an estimated 58,000 people in it.
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