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- Tags: Street Cars
Richard Rodgers's Oral History #2
Tags: 1988, Amusement Park, Betty Turnell, Billy Sunday, carnivals, Circus, clearing tracks, crank, Decatur Club, Decatur IL, December 1988, drainage ditch, Dreamland Park, early 1900s, electric cars, gasoline heater, Home Telephone System, horse-drawn plow, horses, Hotel Orlando, interview, Lincoln Theatre, Linn and Scruggs, Millikin National Bank, oral history, plowing streets, Polar Ice Company, Postal Telegraph, Powers Opera House, Presbyterian Church, recording, Richard Rodgers, Riverside Park, sidewalks, sled, sleigh, Street Cars, Streets, tires, touring car, Western Union, wood block pavement, YMCA
Richard Rodgers' Oral History #1
Tags: 1984, air conditioning, automobiles, Baseball, Betty Turnell, Bijoux Theatre, Blue Book, board room, childhood, chimes, Clothing, Coal Mines, cook's stove, Decatur Civic Orchestra, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Downtown, electricity, Empress Theatre, family orchestra, February 1984, Federal Home Loan Act, Feltman and Curm, FHA, First Methodist Church broadcast, Great Depression, Gushard Building, Gushard store, homogenization, Interurban, interview, John Philip Sousa's band, Lincoln Square, Lincoln Theatre, Linn and Scruggs, marimba, Millikin Orchestra, Millikin University, Music, Musician, Newspapers, oboe, oral history, out houses., pasteurization, public transportation, Pugh School, Radio, recording, refrigeration, Richard Rodgers, Roosevelt Junior High School, salt water taffy, shoe repair, Shoe Store, Shoes, shopping, Stephen Decatur High School, Street Cars, Swarthout Brothers, telephones, The Anvil Chorus, Transfer House, triangle, unpaved streets, vaudeville theatre, vitaphone programs, WJBL station, World War I, WWI, xylophone
Photos of East Main Street, Decatur, IL.
Tags: 100 Block E. Main St., 1910, 1912, 1927, 1934, 1943, 1962, 1969, 432 E. Main St., Blacksmith Shop, Bolay's Hobbies, Cheap Charley's Clothing, Dennis G. Mahorney, E. Main & Franklin, East Main St., Enloe's Drug Store, Ford Garage, Herald and Review, Lincoln Square, Millikin Bank, Photo File: Streets, St. Nicholas Hotel, Street Cars, Transfer House, Water St.
Photos of East Main Street, Decatur, IL.
Photographs of North Water Street over several decades.
Tags: 100 Block, 1896, 1996, 200 Block, 400 Block, Aerial View, Bazley Meats, Bijou Theatre, Buildings Demolished, Bursteins Womens Apparel, Decatur Drug, Decatur Dry Goods, Decatur IL., Empress Theatre, Empty Lot, Methodist Church, Millikin Bank, Moose, Neustadts Clothing, Night Scene, North Water Street, Osgood, Postcard Photo, Raupp's Shoes, Richman Brothers Clothing, Roth-Johnson Drug Store, S. Park St., Street Cars, Streets, Uniforms