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Even allowing for artistic license, it's difficult to see how Charles Owens could have City Hall looming in the background from our blacksmith shop on Garey Street. Below, a view from 1st Street and Garey via Google maps' street view. Owens would have been several blocks farther away for this July 1, 1938, entry.

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Posted by Larry Harnisch on July 1, 2008 in Architecture , City Hall , Downtown , Nuestro Pueblo | Permalink

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Larry -

I absolutely love this Nuestro Pueblo stuff. Its like the 1938's version of Project1947. Comparing then and now is extremely interesting.

Posted by: Grover | July 01, 2008 at 01:43 PM

Larry,

It's 1938 style reporting. I can see the top of the City Hall in the street scene photo, maybe not looming, but "looming," like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder

Posted by: Duane Laible | July 02, 2008 at 12:30 PM

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