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A T Era photo
I found this on FB today. It's from a scrapbook of photos taken on a 1921 cross country trip. The caption identified it only as a small town on the plains. It's a wonderful illustration of town streets and country roads.
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Great photo Steve, funny to see the wide main street stop abruptly at the town limit and continue as a winding dirt road
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This is a neat photo from the past. In the upper left side of the picture it looks like a water tower with a spout for trains.
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Glad you mentioned that Perry! They had a tall pump tower with a spout for a tank didn't they?
Sure looks like the tank is railroad style. Good eyes!
Steve, Leo, IF that main street ended at the bottom, and the far hillside was a lake, this photo would look like the town that's just 4 miles away in about 1900. Go down the end of main street and you have to turn as it's a lake after that.
Here, the railroad stayed up on top of the steeper hill behind the camera. The road down looks almost like the old Soo hill.
Been looking at this photo for days.
Sure looks like the tank is railroad style. Good eyes!
Steve, Leo, IF that main street ended at the bottom, and the far hillside was a lake, this photo would look like the town that's just 4 miles away in about 1900. Go down the end of main street and you have to turn as it's a lake after that.
Here, the railroad stayed up on top of the steeper hill behind the camera. The road down looks almost like the old Soo hill.
Been looking at this photo for days.
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Re: A T Era photo
What looks like a pipe to fill the tender could also be the line to the bigger tank for city supply. It's a bit too high off the ground for fill tenders without an extension. On the other side, inline with water pump/tower is what looks like a grain storage. Team and wagon could turn around anywhere along the dirt road, but once they got into town, the street needed to be wide enough for them to do so. Even the town I grew up close to (Canby Oregon), the main street between the Southern Pacific tracks and buildings was planed that way.
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Re: A T Era photo
Many town have wide streets because in the horse and buggy days parking was usually angle -very hard to parallel park a horse and buggy. Angle parking usually carried over to the early automotive days but is far less common today.
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