Main Street, Millinocket, Maine (Postcard Series)

Bird's-eye View, Northeast from Union Depot, Milwaukee, Wis. (Postcard Series)

Better known as the Everett Street Depot.  (Photo credit:  Wikipedia)

Opening in 1888.  Closed in 1965.  Razed the following year.

When heaven was down at the corner of Clyborn and North 2nd:  A visit to Milwaukee's downtown depot.  (Railroad Model Craftsman)

Sky Line of Downtown Nashville, Tennessee (Postcard Series)

Then

Now

Photo credit:  Wikipedia

The Square, Looking East, Cleveland, Ohio (Postcard Series)

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's big ideas, Part 1: Public Square makeover.  (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 9/6/2013)

Photo credit:  Adam and David

In the Heart of Memphis Tennessee (Postcard Series)

Memphis Court Square

The building with the mansard roof, built in 1910, is the Exchange Building, formerly known as the Cotton Exchange Building and the Mercantile Exchange Building.  It was converted from office space to apartments in 1996.

Photo source:  City-data.com

Weinstock Lubin Department Store, Sacramento, California (Postcard Series)

"Weinstock's was distinctly Sacramento; it was ours."  History West Press, 7/22/2012)

From an interview with Annette Kassis, author of Weinstock's: Sacramento's Finest Department Store.    My personal memories of Weinstock’s come from two very different vantage points in my life. I was one of the younger children in my family, and I remember as a little girl going to Weinstock’s with my mother to pick out Christmas gifts for my older sisters. These were simple things like stockings and handkerchiefs, but to me these were the glamorous things that meant one was “grown up".

Where not to conduct an interview.


Northern California Department Stores -- Weinstock Lubin.  (Plummer & Associates blog, 2/18/2011)

Excerpt:   I visited Weinstock Lubin & Company when I was young as I only lived 80 miles south in Modesto. Although Weinstock Lubin had an enjoyable lunch bar for kids, it was not as magnificent as the stores in San Francisco. Weinstock Lubin was a major participant in the holiday festivities and always had wonderful window displays. 

The Department Store Museum:  Weinstock's.

Chapman Nat'l Bank & Fidelity Trust Co., Monument Square, Portland, Maine (Postcard Series)

Photo credit:  Maine League of Young Voters

Orlando, Fla. Skyline by Moonlight "The City Beautiful" (Postcard Series)

The picture postcard is from a time when Orlando was a sleepy town of 35,000 or so.

Lights of Downtown District Across Lake Merritt, Oakland, Calif. (Postcard Series)

Lake Merritt, the Jewel of Oakland

Hotel Brooks and the Pickwick Coffee Chop, Brattleboro, Vermont (Postcard Series)

Brattleboro Blaze Ravages Historic Downtown Building.  (Vermont Public Radio, 04/18/11)



Looking Back At Brooks House Fire In Brattleboro. (New Hampshire Sentinel-Source, 5/7/2011)

Broadway Street, Downtown Oklahoma City (Postcard Series)

Photo credit:  Wikimedia Commons

Downtown

Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont (Postcard Series)

Montpelier's Main Street Walking Tour

Photo credit:  Wikipedia Commons (Author: John Phelan)

Turks Head, Providence, Rhode Island

Photo credit:  I, Infrogmation (via Wikipedia)

Tallest building in downtown Providence upon its construction in 1913 until 1922, when it was superseded by the Providence Biltmore.

Pershing Square, Los Angeles

Come back to Pershing Square. Again. Please. (Los Angeles Times, 2/13/2013)

Excerpt:  Pity Pershing Square. It’s been put through more makeovers than Joan Rivers, and the results haven’t been nearly as presentable.

Downtown Miami from Miami River (Postcard Series)

Photo credit:  Wikimedia Commons

Chicago Skyline at Night (Postcard Series)

Minneapolis Skyline (Postcard Series)

Can you find the Foshay Tower?

Downtown Jacksonville (Postcard Series)

Downtown Jacksonville Information and Improvement District

Photo credit:  State Archives of Florida:  Florida Memories.

Detroit's Skyline at Night (Postcard Series)

Photo source:  Wikipedia

Detroit Historical Society

Broadway, Los Angeles, California (Postcard Series)

United Artists building/Texaco building/Ace Hotel Los Angeles