A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Stout hearted fellows, all. They each seem very healthy with the look of adventure and great promise in their eyes. IMO.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Stout hearted fellows, all. They each seem very healthy with the look of adventure and great promise in their eyes. IMO.

......that all went off to be teachers of some sort, somewhere...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Sounds right.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Sounds right.

CVSNS = Cumberland Valley State Normal School -- "Normal" schools were one went to become a teacher

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Main Street, Galeton, Pa

[Roy]

I see the drug store is well marked off. Is that a gas pump, by the first Model T to the left?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I see the drug store is well marked off. Is that a gas pump, by the first Model T to the left?

Drug store was once the most important business in many towns where you could literally buy just about everything.

Yes, that appears to be a gas pump, too!

[rogruth]

Many of those buildings look similar to those sold by O Guage Railroading.
I forget the name used for that part of that company.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Many of those buildings look similar to those sold by O Guage Railroading.
I forget the name used for that part of that company.

Ameritowne?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Still in Galeton, Pa

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Such an interesting village (town?) They wore a lot of black clothing in those days, it appears. I wonder why.

Additionally, it is very nice and remarkable seeing horse-drawn carriages parked across the street and along the same curbs as the new-fangled horseless-carriages. I don't recall ever seeing that preserved so poignantly in a photo previously.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Such an interesting village (town?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeton,_Pennsylvania

Not too many residents in that part of the state.

They wore a lot of black clothing in those days, it appears. I wonder why.

Ok, you're looking a 100 year old card that either toned a bit or was in part a sepia tone print of a b&w photo. Just about every dark color comes out as black. Bright colors were not commonly seen at this time.

Additionally, it is very nice and remarkable seeing horse-drawn carriages parked across the street and along the same curbs as the new-fangled horseless-carriages. I don't recall ever seeing that preserved so poignantly in a photo previously.

One of the reasons I posed this card.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And I guess that like blacksmiths, the guys who made horse whips were soon out of business, and needed to quickly develop new skills and/or products. Maybe some became attendants at those sidewalk-side gasoline pumps.

[rogruth]

I think we tend to forget how much was available in small towns and not that long ago.
In my hometown along the Ohio River of @ 15,000 people, until about 1975, almost
anything that was needed could be found, usually in walking distance.
I don't remember that things were cheaper across the river in Wheeling, WV, but more
variety could be found. There was a bicycle shop in Bellaire (hometown) that always had
Lionel available. However, when I got into HO I had to go to Wheeling for that. The train
store also had O scale kits and some parts that I did build and used Lionel trucks and couplers.

Now the above ramble has some of my usual drift but I don't think is too far off topic.