Here's something we wanted to do before getting back to the other stuff & calling it a night. A friend of ours stopped by the River Museum Sunday with a half dozen old post cards he's collected from here & there. He was kind enough to let us scan this one with a post mark on the back dated 1909. It's an angle we haven't seen before looking west along Main Street. It was taken from the corner of 3rd & Main and is the first picture shown here.
We tried to duplicate the same angle in the second picture to show what it looks like today. We didn't quite get it exactly alike but it's close.
That was a busy part of town back in the early 1900s. It was in eyesight of one of our two train stations.
What a difference a century makes...
ole nib
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I like the first picture better. Looks like the Busy Bee was getting a hefty liquor delivery??
Can't remember the names without doing some digging but that stretch was loaded with bars & eateries back then. There was a bar in the corner building, think is was at the very corner. Then there was one owned by the late Rocco Corbisello a few doors up that I remember back in the 50s. Plenty of place to wet your whistle back then...
nib
Love the first one, too. I wondered what those buildings were on the right, when we came down to Wellsville-Wellsville is a another place we are drawn too as my hubbys lineage was traced back to 5th generation of the Wells. He has heard story of how grandmothers'(not sure what generation said she use to climb the hill to watch the boats go by.
Not only that but I have been taken with the beauty of old houses & buildings. and of course history of the area goes hand in hand with that.
juanital - The Wellsville River Museum is loaded with Wells historical items.
nib
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