1914 - World's First Traffic Light Cleveland OH @WhatWasThere

Post by The Sidewalk Ballet.

Post by The Sidewalk Ballet.

From WhatWasThere —Another Theater That Became a Parking Lot

The Paradise Theater, which was built in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, was billed as the world’s most beautiful theater.

"Saddest Fade" on WhatWasThere

The William Livingstone House, constructed in 1893, commonly called Slumpy, was a French Renaissance house located in Detroit's Brush Park. William Livingstone selected Eliot Street in Brush Park and hired architect Albert Kahn who was working for the George Mason-Zachariah Rice firm. When he obtained this commission – presumably with Mason’s help – Kahn was only 22 or 23 years old and had just returned from spending 1891 in Europe studying the classical architecture of the Old World. More at: http://www.whatwasthere.com/b/3567 FB https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=509690729093607

From WhatWasThere — 1917 Car Wreck

From WhatWasThere — Corner of Hastings and Cambie 1900

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Source http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/exterior-of-arcade-n-w-corner-of-hastings-and-cambie-streets;rad

From WhatWasThere — Sunday Market on Maxwell Street in Chicago (1958)

From WhatWasThere.com — New Haven, CT Then and Now

View of men sitting and leaning on the old Yale Fence, facing Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database, Yale University. Slide the green fade bar...

San Francisco Earthquake April 18, 1906

April 18, 1906 the shaking began at 5:12 a.m. When it was over 3000 were dead and 28000 buildings lay in ruins. Half the population was homeless. San Francisco was rebuilt in less than a century. 

1910 — 5th and Broadway, New York