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Longview Pictures & Postcards
Street Scenes

Picture Title Description Contributed By
Early Street View 1904 street view; street name unknown -
Cotton Street Cotton 1907 Cotton street - bales of cotton from the local cotton growers are lined up the side of Cotton street, probably waiting to be put on the train to be shipped to market.  Back of card reads nearly 800 bales total. -
Streetcar Postcard; ca. 1910; mule drawn trolley -
Streetcar Date unknown -
Streetcar A different type of mule car with its driver Isaac Smith.  
Streetcar 1912 - The sign says it all.......The last ride on the mule drawn streetcar.  
Electric Streetcar September of 1912 was Emancipation Day for the mules.....no more mule car rides in Longview. Here they are showing off one of the first electric cars in Longview.  
Early Street View Postcard; dated 1913  
Night Street Scene Postcard; dated 1914; titled "White Way"  
City Park & Depot Postcard; 1920's  
Street Scene 1920's  
Methvin Street A 1930's view of Methvin Street, showing the Hurst Clinic, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Gregg Hotel. -
Methvin Street Postcard of East Methvin Street. Year unknown. -
Greggton 1940's Main Street (Hwy. 80) in Greggton, which is now the west end of Longview. -
Fredonia Street 1940's -
Fredonia Street Dated 1943 -
Fredonia Street 1940's -
Fredonia Street 1940's; Business Section of town. -
Tyler Street Tyler Street looking west; Looks like Early 1950's -
Tyler Street 1950's at Christmas time -
Downtown 1950's Post Office & Petroleum Building -


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