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Circa 1907. "Laconia, New Hampshire -- Main Street." A highlight here is the handbill advertising "the most perfect moving pictures" and "animated pantomimic dramas" at the Folsom Opera House. View full size.
What's this? A 1907 downtown without a single painless dentist in sight!
The building at left would be occupied by F. W. Woolworth within a couple of years. The barbershop and unusual barber pole remained, but moved next door. Woolworth later relocated up the street to a new building on Bank Square at Main and Pleasant Streets, where the Eagle Hotel sits in the 1907 photo. None of the 1907 buildings appear to exist now.
On the left, we have Quimby Drugs; on the right, Quinby & Son Sporting Goods & Fishing Tackle.
Shorpy-inspired in-depth research shows that the circus poster proclaiming fun on Tuesday, July 23 - and a comparison with old calendars - proves that date fell in 1907.
Nice to know what’s in those wagons.
In the right foreground - a real meat wagon! This one seems to have some real body parts aboard too.
I count at least eleven horse carts, but nothing motorized. In most city scenes of this era with this many vehicles visible, you can usually spy at least one or two horseless carriages. Is their lack here just happenstance, or is there a deeper underlying reason for it, such as lack of reliable gasoline supplies to the distant reaches of New Hampshire?
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