From Wednesday, February 13, 1957. Kingsport News
As I’ve noted before, my Kingsport Times paper route took me down Shelby Street, behind the Post Office (it became the library in ’61). The tempting smells coming from Pal’s made my stomach rumble. Still does, even today.
For the record, $1 in 1957 would be worth $9.36 in 2021(CPI Inflation Calculator)
Early morning, sometime around 1925. It’s another T.J. Stephenson card…I’ve posted information about him here. (Nothing special on the back, except the inventory number of 121035…the lowest number of these cards I have is 121023 and the highest is 121042. It’s a Tichnor Quality Views card)
I think these were all residential then. When I delivered papers down this street in 1957, there were several businesses along the way. Whenever I catch the smell of kneaded erasers, my memory escorts me back to an art supply store about halfway down the street. I’ve mentioned before that my dream was to have all the illustration board I wanted. Got there. Did that.
Oh, look, Ma! No antennas on Bays Mountain. Obviously.
This Duotone card’s picture was taken, I think, around 1915 or 16 from about halfway up Cement Hill. The street to the left is Shelby, with the Big Store on the left. The bank, the building with the columns, is on the corner of Broad and Main. Note there’s no Church Circle, but there is the old school and the old Presbyterian Church just to the right of where Shelby ends at Sullivan.
It looks as if someone at the publishing company (CT – Curt Teich – in Chicago) inked in some of the fainter lines of the buildings in the background, which makes it harder to identify them. However, I think the building I live in is there.
This card was “published by Kingsport Drug Store”. Standard double-back for the time. Typical penny postcard.
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