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Hawkins electric hostess trolley advertisement

Advertisement for the Hawkins Electric Hostess Trolley for gracious living, enabling you to entertain with dignity even when domestic help is not available'! An elegant hostess is pictured serving a pre-prepared meal to her guests from the trolley, where everything is kept warm for stress-free dinner party entertaining, sixties style! Date: 1964

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge) - Tokyo, Japan

Nihonbashi (literally Japan Bridge), or Nihombashi, a business district of Chuo, Tokyo, Japan which grew up around the bridge of the same name (pictured, which has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century). In the early 1960s, a vast expressway was built above this bridge, spoiling the situation of the elegant structure. There are now plans to remove this eyesore and for the bridge to once again be the focal point for the area. Date: circa 1907

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Market Street, east from 10th, Philadelphia, 1907 (b/w photo)

3958227 Market Street, east from 10th, Philadelphia, 1907 (b/w photo) by Smith, John Gibb (1889-1946); Free Library of Philadelphia; (add.info.: "A mail trolley is just visible (at the very center) on the siding at the Post Office, right, in this busy scene from the same series at the preceding photo."--OPEP, p. 91.
The view down the street, with street cars and trolley tracks, horse-drawn wagons and carriages, and subway construction equipment on street. Sidewalks and street busy with people. Police on horseback stand at the south corner. Commercial buildings include: "Heilbron's" ; "Tho. Martindale & Co." ; "Gimbel Brothers" ; "Pilsner beer" ; "The People's Store" ; "Otto Eisenlohr & Bros." Horse-drawn carriage with sign: "National local express to here."
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