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Town Kingston: Summer Street Views |
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thanks go to Dave Pepe of Kingston who allowed images from his
personal collection to be scanned for all to see. Dave has been
collecting post card images of Kingston for more than eight years.
A thumbnail collection is displayed below -- click on the image
for a larger view. |
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Summer
Street in Winter
Town Center -- looking north toward rail road tracks.
Circa 1896. |
Summer
Street in Summer
Town Center -- looking north toward rail road tracks. The view is
nearly identical -- except for the missing telegraph and telephone
lines.
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Playing
Photo
Detective
At first glance the two
photos of Summer Street appear to be identical except for
season. A closer look reveals a telling difference -- the
photo on the left shows a pole carrying a brace of
telephone lines (40 lines to be exact -- count the
insulators on each cross piece). But which photo is older?
My guess is that the color photo pre-dates the 1896 photo
by at least six years. Estimated year of hand colored
photo: 1890. |
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Believe
it or not!
Once upon a time Kingston had its own trolley cars. Junction of
Summer and Green Street (across from today's Reed Community Center
and the town library. Note the trolley tracks and trolley car
sharing the scene with a vintage Ford motor car. |
