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

[healey36]

More likely a legal practice, demonstrating how they extract fees.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

More likely a legal practice, demonstrating how they extract fees.

Blood from a stone or draining what appears to be a desiccated corpse? Anesthetic applied with the mallet?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Look at the guys on the left under the tree in their chairs in the street.
Not concerned about the traffic at all. Those were the days.

[Wolf]

Streets were considered a public space with everyone responsible for looking
out for the other users with no regimented traffic laws (drive/ride/walk on the right, etc.)
until the automobile interests stepped in and instigated anti-jaywalking legislation in the 1920's....
the first step in redefining who owned the streets. And not to be too cynical ,
jaywalking tickets have become another of the cash cows that feed municipal coffers ,
although, to be fair, automobiles also contribute via traffic fines and parking tickets .


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[MurphOnMillerAve]

I cant make up my mind if 7th and E. Centre Sts. there looks peaceful or deserted.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I cant make up my mind if 7th and E. Centre Sts. there looks peaceful or deserted.

Peaceful - - unlike in many of the previous cards there are actual people present doing little, waiting for something, or just passing the time sitting back feet up against that tree.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Here are a few from another Pennsylvania town, rather different from Ashland, I suspect, this one associated with the steel industry...

[rogruth]

Murph,
Do you know anthing about that town in those pictures?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
Do you know anthing about that town in those pictures?

Maaaaybeee.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Such a broad avenue, especially in that circa, suggests to me a very prosperous community , as does the solid architecture . Plus, numerous shops to patronize evidences people who earn an income working resulting in money to spend.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes, a far larger town than many depicted in the cards that I post located between Centralia and Rt 81. Paved roads, wide sidewalks, many early automobiles, and a trolley line running down the center of the road. Gas pump off to the right and lighting over the center of the intersection. The mines were generating some real money then.........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yes, a far larger town than many depicted in the cards that I post located between Centralia and Rt 81. Paved roads, wide sidewalks, many early automobiles, and a trolley line running down the center of the road. Gas pump off to the right and lighting over the center of the intersection. The mines were generating some real money then.........

Yes, I neglected to mention that trolley line. When a town earns a trolley line, back in those days, you were definitely on-the-map, for population and income reality, IMHO, at least, in my observation as experienced among the many villages, towns ,and cities along the rivers of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, circa 1940-50's. Right?. (Of course, it didn't hurt to be located down in the valley, too, on relatively level ground. Hills - not so good.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes, a far larger town than many depicted in the cards that I post located between Centralia and Rt 81. Paved roads, wide sidewalks, many early automobiles, and a trolley line running down the center of the road. Gas pump off to the right and lighting over the center of the intersection. The mines were generating some real money then.........

Yes, I neglected to mention that trolley line. When a town earns a trolley line, back in those days, you were definitely on-the-map, for population and income reality, IMHO, at least, in my observation as experienced among the many villages, towns ,and cities along the rivers of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, circa 1940-50's. Right?. (Of course, it didn't hurt to be located down in the valley, too, on relatively level ground. Hills - not so good.

The trolley lines were in place in the 20's if not earlier. By the 50's many of the trolley lines that connected up the smaller towns were gone.....