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Billboards
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Roadside billboard advertising for Esso, reminding motorists to have their cars checked during the fall season at Esso. Sign reads "For the fall check-up see your Esso dealer." Pictures an older man portraying a doctor holding a stethoscope to a bare chested boy wearing a football helmet.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Billboards
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- Description: Two 1950s billboards. The one on the left is sponsored by Royer Motor Company located at 173 St. Paul Street, Burlington, Vermont. The other advertises Yankee Doodles pastries by Drake's.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington - Street Views
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- Description: 1945/1946 view of Flynn Ave and Shelburne Road, Burlington, Vermont. Damaged sign advertising "Oakledge Manor on Lake Champlain".
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Billboards
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Roadside billboard located in a grassy sandy lot next to a street advertising Florsheim shoes. Business name of Lewis & Blanchard appears at the bottom of the sign. To the extreme right is a white wooden entry-type gate. Undated but may be 1920s. Location unknown but may be lower Main Street in Burlington.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Oakledge, Burlington, VT
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- Date Created: 1945-1946
- Description: 1945/1946 photo of Flynn Ave and Shelburne Road, looking northeast. Damaged sign advertising "Oakledge Manor on Lake Champlain". The Elizabeth Lund Home, 346 Shelburne Rd., can be seen through the trees. (Can anyone identify this type of automobile?)
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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- Description: Undated photo (1929 or early 1930s?) of Riverside Ave showing road construction project by the city street dept crew. Billboards are seen in the background including one advertising Lucky Strike cigarettes. Filling station seen to the left may be Fairview Garage of 110 Riverside Ave.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Colchester Ave
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- Date Created: undated
- Description: Undated photo but may be late 1920s (1928-1929). View is at the base of Colchester Ave looking up the hill with Lower Winooski Road (Riverside Ave) to the right. Automobiles line up in the intersection. To the far right are billboards and an abandoned trolley car. The cable running across the photo may be for the no longer used trolley. Construction crew works on street pavement.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Riverside Ave.
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- Description: Undated but may be 1929 or early 1930s showing completed repaving project by the city street dept after the trolley tracks have been removed or covered up. View is looking towards Winooski from Burlington. To the right is the Riverside Service Station (No. 152) selling Socony gasoline. Billboards line one embankment. Colchester Ave runs along the ridge towering in the background. To the left is the Fairview Garage at 110 Riverside.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Burlington Streets: Winooski Ave.
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- Description: Undated but may be 1939 view of So. Winooski Ave. looking south at the intersection of Main Street. To the left men work on street construction project near the corner Herbert Auto Service at 204-206 So. Winooski selling Gulf. To the right is the Strong Theater building and Strong Hardware at 205-207 So. Winooski. A two story tall billboard structure is seen to the west side of the auto service store.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
Road Construction
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- Date Created: 1928-09-10
- Description: September 10, 1928. Workmen, bags of cement, trucks, machinery and road side billboards all are seen at this road construction site. On the photo's left side is seen strung lines to plumb the straight edge of the road side.
- Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs