This was a really fun set of slides from the Central Ohio Fire Museum.

We've been working on digitizing a series of public works materials that they acquired.

Basically, the department went around and filmed, photographed parts of town where they were doing work just to kind of document the process kind of before and after.

So they went around photographing storm drains and paving projects.

And in doing so, we got these fantastic street scenes that were sort of a snapshot in time.

This is actually West Broad Street, looking west from about the area of where COSI and Veterans Memorial is now.

So obviously it looks very different today.

We've got businesses like a moving and furniture company.

You've got a restaurant, some residences, some small billboards and a barber shop.

You can see the pole kind of right there on the street.

This entire area obviously is pretty much green space and parking lots now.

So all of this is gone.

With one exception, you can see the top of the train station that's still located where actually the firefighters union is located today, designed by Frank Packard.

We were able to identify this as about 1906 based on the streetcar number that we have here.

And the prevalence of the horse-drawn carriage is still kind of up and down Broad.

You can see that it's a brick-paved street.

By the 1930s, most of this side of the street had been emptied out.

And by the 1960s all of this section had and Central High School would have been kind of back this way.

Another great photo as part of that collection is this image here, which is the corner of West Mound and West Main.

And we actually have a date on this one about the same time.

This one's in 1809.

And actually the saloon pictured it's the James Pollas Saloon, P-O-L-L-A-S and it was only there for about a year.

So it was just happenstance that they happened to capture it at the moment that it was there.

Behind it, we can see the Hardesty Brothers flour mill.

Over here we have a foundry.

And this is about where the Miranova Condominiums would be located today.

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