Ground-level street views taking in so many different locations that a link after each relevant item might get repetitive.
♦ Main Street circa 1895: a set of six Independence Day parade scenes focusing on the west side of the 300 block. The Strattan building, on the southwest corner of Main and Third, is prominent in the background of the first photo and can be seen in all of them, so it makes a good point of reference. (The images are 3000 pixels wide in their original size, but may be better viewed in "Large" size.)
♦ A collection of street scenes circa 1898.
♦ The 300 block of Main Street, west side, looking north from about mid-block, in 1900.
♦ A parade scene, probably from the early 1900s, takes in some of the west side of the 300 and 400 blocks of Main Street.
♦ Another parade photo shows us the east side of Main, looking north from around the middle of the 300 block. (Photo undated; maybe circa 1903?) The judging stand is plastered with advertisements from many of the town's businesses.
♦ The first image in this post looks south on Main Street from Front Street, circa 1913. This colored postcard shows a similar view (undated, but probably circa 1907-1912).
♦ The 300 block of Main Street circa 1910, as seen from the intersection of Main and Fourth.
♦ Looking north along the west side of the 300 block of Main Street (undated; circa 1907-1917). That vehicle at mid-block on the west side is probably a horse-drawn oil delivery wagon.
♦ Looking south along the west side of the 300 block of Main Street, from a postcard postmarked 1915.
♦ This circa-1913 image looks north along the west side of the 200 block of Main Street.
♦ Main Street after a heavy snowfall, sometime in the 1920s.
♦ Looking north on Main Street from the intersection with Third, circa 1920-1926.
♦ Looking north on Main Street from the Nickel Plate Railroad tracks, probably circa 1930s.
♦ Looking north on Main Street from the intersection with Third, circa 1932.
♦ Main Street circa 1940, looking north from the mid-300 block.
♦ Here we are looking south on Main Street from near Second Street; the postcard is postmarked 1949, but since the photo shows the Hobart House still standing, it must date to 1940 or a little earlier.
♦ Another view north along the west side of Main Street's 300 block (undated, but based on the cars, probably around the time of World War II).
♦ The east side of Main Street in 1948, looking north from just below Fourth Street.
♦ The photographer stood on Main Street just north of the Nickel Plate tracks and pointed his camera toward the intersection with Fourth Street, circa 1955.
♦ Looking north on Main Street from its intersection with Fourth Street, 1961.
♦ The photographer stood just north of the intersection of Main and Third and pointed the camera southwest for this shot, taken March 12, 1968. We can see most of the west side of Main Street's 300 block.
♦ The photographer probably leaned out of an upper window on the Main Street side of the Strattan building to get this 1973 shot of the intersection of Main and Third.
♦ I think it's the 1975 Independence Day parade in this photo that takes in part of the east side of Main Street's 300 block.
♦ The 300 block of Main Street, looking north from near Fourth, in 1980.
♦ Downtown as viewed from the west side of Lake George, circa 1943.
♦ The Deep River was running high when August Haase took this photo from its north bank.
♦ A circa-1907 view of Main Street from just west of the Third Street bridge.
♦ One of the images in this post shows Third Street, looking east from the bridge.
♦ Looking west on Third Street from the intersection of Third and Center (undated, but probably from the first decade of the 20th century); another view (circa 1910-1923) taken from just slightly further east, with the Guyer Building as post office at right.
♦ The Guyer Building overlooks a busy scene in this undated photo, which takes in the north side of Third at Center Street.
♦ Two views of Third Street, looking west from near East Street: in this one, from a postcard postmarked 1913, the streetcar lines have been strung overhead but apparently the track has not been laid yet; in this one (undated; perhaps circa 1915) horse-drawn wagons share the road with automobiles and streetcars.
♦ The Third Street bridge over Lake George, as viewed from the southeast, circa 1910. (The church in the background is Trinity Lutheran, at the corner of Main and Second.) A similar view from 1926 shows the Trinity church a little more clearly, and to the right of it you can even see the St. Bridget steeple; further back toward the left are brickyard smokestacks.
♦ Third Street, looking east from its intersection with Main, from a postcard postmarked 1910.
♦ Handwritten notes on the back of this photo read: "Center St. looking from 3d to 2d (before 1925). Vacant lot on right is where the Masonic Temple stands."
