NowaDays View
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| North Main Street ... 100 Block ... West ... Early 2010s |
OldenDays View
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| North Main Street ... 100 Block ... West ... Early 1960s |
Minutia:
Fort Tax Service (top photo) used to be a candy store, a restaurant, and a "
Gourmet Corner." The building in the middle was
Newlins Gifts for many years. Nowadays it's a
Curves Fitness Center. That lady doing the window shopping appears in my previous post.
D'ya think she ever figured she'd be in a blog in the 21st century? Compared to the
NowaDays View above, the building to the extreme right seems to have been covered by metal siding. They did this a lot in the fifties, sixties and seventies. (Remember, these buildings were already eighty years old by the 1960s!) Rather than restore expensive brick facades and ever-breakable glass windows, they just covered up the whole front of the building with enameled sheet metal tiles. In a rare instance of the
NOW photo looking better than the
THEN photo, this seems to be the case with the
Five Star Antiques building. Thanks to Main Street being placed on the National Register of Historic Places, many of the buildings look better today than they did mid-century.
And can someone pick up all the garbage in the gutters? Hey lady...
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