Main Street Neat Repeats!

Here are a couple of blasts from the past (i.e. repeats)! Who knows, if you weren't looking at this blog in 2008, maybe these are new to you. And in the end, isn't that more important than things like family, happiness, or health? You bet it is!

1956. The Beatles hadn't done a thing yet. Apple introduced the Macintosh computer many years later. "Jaws" were just things you chewed gum with. Gosh, what a year it was! One great thing that happened is that somebody took this swell photo in Town Square, just oozing with 50's goodness. I love that we can see the little police station to the extreme left... it made it into very few photos thanks to its location. City Hall looks splendid, as does the horse-drawn streetcar (and the horse, wearing a chapeau). 

Here's another fantastic shot, looking north on Main Street (Instagram is calling, it wants its filter back). Patriotic bunting makes me wonder if this was taken around the 4th of July - or perhaps it was always the 4th of July on Main Street USA, if you know what I mean.

Let's go watch Rudolph Valentino in the Main Street Cinema! We missed our chance to ride the Streetcar and the Surrey, but we can cross the street and pet the leeches in the Upjohn Pharmacy. I always liked to put two of them on my upper lip to make a hilarious old-timey mustache.