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Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church St. (4X5)
Burlington Streets: Church St. (4X5)
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    • Date Created: 1943-06-25
    • Description: June 25, 1943. Trolley Rail Removal Project, Burlington Street Department, Burlington, Vermont. This photo was "reshot" and is similar to another also showing the rail removal process in front of City Hall and Police Station with the paving crew following close behind the rail removing crew filling the trench with quick-setting cement concrete. Retail stores include Hayes and Carney Mens Clothes on the right next to the Western Union office. Distant right is City Hall. Further down is the mansard roof building that once served as a place of worship for the First Baptist Church from 1845-1864.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
    Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church St. (4X5)
    Burlington Streets: Church St. (4X5)
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      • Date Created: 1943-06-25
      • Description: June 25, 1943. Trolley track rail removal project. Church Street retail stores seen to the right include Hayes and Carney Men's Clothes, Western Union office, City Hall (distant right), mansard roof building (center) on Main Street that once served as place of worship for First Baptist Church from the 1840s to 1864.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
      Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church St. (4X5)
      Burlington Streets: Church St. (4X5)
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        • Date Created: undated
        • Description: View of Church Street after a winter snowstorm looking north toward the Unitarian Church. Snow is being shoveled by hand and loaded onto trucks. The trolley tracks can still be seen running down the middle of the street. On the right the sign for a hardware retail store can be seen. Possibly the 1930s or 1940s.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
        Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
        Burlington Streets: Church Street
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          • Date Created: undated
          • Description: Salvage Project. Trolley track Rail Removal Project, Burlington, Vermont. This view taken in front of Burlington City Hall (right) while the last rail was being pulled on June 25, 1943, shows the special rail pulling equipment including the device for the "rolling pull" on the rail shown at the end of the "A" frame. In the background beyond city hall is a mansard roof building (corner of Church and Main) used for worship by the First Baptist Church of Burlington from 1845-1864.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
          Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
          Burlington Streets: Church Street
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            • Date Created: 1943-06-25 00:00:00
            • Description: Rail Removal Project, Burlington, Vt. Date on photo June 25, 1943. This view shows the process of removing the trolley car tracks on Church Street where they were embedded in reinforced concrete. An auxiliary air tank was used to supply additional compressed air for operating the paving breakers in loosening the cement around the rails. This picture was taken on the last day of this project. Construction workers seen. To the left is Burlington City Hall; just beyond is the Fire Station. On the right are retail stores that include Ellsworth jewelry, Star Restaurant American and Chinese (144 Church St.)
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
            Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
            Burlington Streets: Church Street
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              • Date Created: undated
              • Description: View of Church Street looking north (Unitarian Church seen center background). A city street vehicle cleans the street. Trolley tracks run down the middle of the road (not used after 1929). Retail stores line both sides and include George G. Mylkes Antiques (#41), F. W. Woolworth Co. 5 and 10 cent store (#37-39), The New Sherwood Hotel (corner of Church and Cherry; hotel burned in 1937), Liggetts Drug Store (#30). On the right Red 46 Department Store (#38-#50)
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
              Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
              Burlington Streets: Church Street
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                • Date Created: undated
                • Description: View of Church Street looking south from the intersection of Pearl and Church. Trolley tracks run the length of the street (not used after 1929). Trolley lines faintly seen strung above. The old Abernethy Clarkson Wright building is on the left in foreground, retail store signs can be seen, on the right a sign for the New Sherwood Hotel.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
                Burlington Streets: Church Street
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                  • Date Created: undated
                  • Description: Church Street looking north from Bank Street toward the Unitarian Church, Burlington, Vermont - July, 1931. Trolley tracks can be seen running the length of the road but no overhead lines (not used since 1929). To the left foreground is Beebe Pharmacy at 75 Church (Mason Gaylord Beebe?) in the Lambert building. Beebe will become Kelley's Pharmacy. Other retail stores seen. New Sherwood Hotel seen further up the street. Hotel burned in 1937. Name of McAllister's studio embossed in lower right along with type print label "Store No. 397 Burlington, Vt."
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                  Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
                  Burlington Streets: Church Street
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                    • Date Created: undated
                    • Description: View of upper Church Street with street cleaning vehicle spraying water. On the left is the Masonic Temple building, on the right Abernethy Clarkson Wright building. The Unitarian Church center background. Indentations of trolley tracts still seen running down the middle of the road.
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                    Miniature of Burlington Streets: Church Street
                    Burlington Streets: Church Street
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                      • Date Created: 1943-06-25 00:00:00
                      • Description: June 25, 1943. Rail Removal Project, Burlington, Vermont. This view looks down Church Street (south) from the intersection of Pearl Street after all trolley rails had been removed and the trenches repaved and opened to traffic. On the left is the Abernethy Clarkson Wright building, on the right Masonic Temple then housing a drug store, Simpson's Fur and Luggage. Sign for Preston's jewelers and Sears department store can be seen further down on the right. Traffic light seen in foreground center of the photo.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs
                      Part of: Louis L. McAllister Photographs