Broad Street As Seen Through Vintage Postcards

Broad Street, Richmond, Va.
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Why Can't Our City Come Alive Again?
For more images of Richmond from the past visit Rarely Seen Richmond.

- Ray B.

Richmond streetcar images on E. Broad Street, 1940.

I got the following two black and white photographs on Ebay this week.
I paid $3.00 and that included postage - a pretty good deal.

Image #1 - Streetcar on the 100 Block of E. Broad Street -
most likely Sept. 1940 [which is the date written on the back of image #2
which appear to be taken at the same time].
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I used a 1940 Richmond directory to identify the businesses and the block.

Here's the view of that block I copied today from Google Maps.

Image #2 - Here's an image of a Richmond streetcar on the the 200 block of E. Broad.

One the back of the photograph someone wrote the date Sept. 1, 1940.

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- Ray Bonis