Today is an old post card that says it is looking north on Howard Avenue. I have driven Howard several times, but I have never been able to locate anything visible in the postcard. Given the corner location and age, I suspect it was either taken at the corner of Gilles or Erie. Either is likely as both corners have been obliterated over the years. Any further south you would run into the cemeteries, and the factory district.
A neat shot all the same, giving us a glimpse of what it was like along Howard Avenue 90 years ago.
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Good call guys - it's certainly looking south. I got this postcard years ago, and long before Streetview, so the only way to check was by driving around, it's way easier with streetview.
As for the number on the curb, I think it might just be written in as a photo ID number by the comapany.
You can see here on this link, from the same series, it has a similar number...
http://internationalmetropolis.com/?p=3166
Also I should be shocked by the wrong caption, as you can see the First Baptist one in the link above, says it's on Windsor Avenue, when it's actually on Mercer.
That set of postcards is full of errors...
I wonder if those poles on opposite sides of the street were for streetcar electrification.
so would that be the Grande Tavern on the left?
ps.... wow good idea using street view to refrence some of these pictures from a current view point.... Im getting obsessive a bit trying to see the difference in the shots between then and now....
JBM - i think you'd be right there. Off that first pole on the right we can see a faint line attached to a line that seems to be running down the center of the street.
Ryan A - the Grand would be just to the left of the building you're looking at.
p.s. - are you my brother? LOL!
oh, and i think another way we can be resonably sure this is erie and not giles is that facing south on howard from giles would be a slight uphill.
Definitely looking south. I immediately recognized the 4-unit on the left. I currently have it up for sale.
Aaron, did you say oranges? I would have never thought that citrus fruit would grow in this climate!
Aaron...I don't know...am I your brother?
I'm glad to see this settled. I've been up and down Howard a couple times with a copy of this p.c. to get an "after" shot, and I'm guessing trusting the "looking north" caption was my downfall. Good work, guys!