I found this exquisite photo of South Broad Street looking north from just beyond East State Street in the Library of Congress web site. The original is very dark and exposure needed tweaking. Thanks to digital image enhancements, I enlarged it, went to the "White's Dental" and other signs and enhanced them to make them as legible as possible, and most importantly, I have a photo of the city as it looked in the 1920's. You almost feel you are standing in the photo and observing the coming and goings of the Ford Model T's and the pedestrians who are happily going about their business. (The building on the right with the mansard roof is the old Trenton City Hall.) The graphic is very large, but once you manipulate it and imagine you are standing on the sidewalk on South Broad Street, I feel sure you will experience the same feeling of standing on the corner watching all the cars and people go by. Enjoy!
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
1920'S: A VISIT TO DOWNTOWN TRENTON circa 1923
I found this exquisite photo of South Broad Street looking north from just beyond East State Street in the Library of Congress web site. The original is very dark and exposure needed tweaking. Thanks to digital image enhancements, I enlarged it, went to the "White's Dental" and other signs and enhanced them to make them as legible as possible, and most importantly, I have a photo of the city as it looked in the 1920's. You almost feel you are standing in the photo and observing the coming and goings of the Ford Model T's and the pedestrians who are happily going about their business. (The building on the right with the mansard roof is the old Trenton City Hall.) The graphic is very large, but once you manipulate it and imagine you are standing on the sidewalk on South Broad Street, I feel sure you will experience the same feeling of standing on the corner watching all the cars and people go by. Enjoy!
HI TOM; THE MOST APPARENT THING TO ME ABOUT THE PHOTO IS THE MANNER IN WHICH EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE DRESSED. ALL THE MEN ARE WEARING JACKETS WITH TIES AND HAVE HATS OR CAPS ON. THEY REMIND ME SO MUCH OF MY FATHER WHEN HE WENT TO WORK IN THE MORNINGS. AT WORK HE WORE OVERALLS, BUT IF YOU SAW HIM WHEN HE LEFT THE HOUSE, YOU WOULD THINK HE WAS THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE. IN THOSE DAYS THEY SEEMED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR APPEARENCE. BEST REGARDS.
ReplyDeleteThat is one amazing photo. No traffic signals at the intersection, rails along South Broad Street, you can even make out a trolly further up Broad. Very few trees along Broad Street back then. Thanks again for posting! -Stephen Doyle
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