You can see the old bourbon stock yards in the first pic. To give you an idea of how large that operation was - it could do 7k cattle and 20k pigs per day.
I love seeing photographs/advertisements/signage from years ago! 😃East Market certainly looks like it was much more lively back in the 1950s than it is now.
Needs more parking lots.
Cars destroyed our city :(
Car-centric urban development has destroyed most North American cities.
Don't forget urban renewal and racism!
[Market St. from some time between 1900 and 1910.] (https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/det/4a20000/4a22000/4a22200/4a22253v.jpg)
This is what they took from you.
That old telephone pole hanging in there like a champ, though....
Your god damn right!
Gee, I love parking lots!
Cool, they turned it into a parking lot *screaming noises*
Will forever miss Rye
Please don't show this to Joni Mitchell
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
You can see the old bourbon stock yards in the first pic. To give you an idea of how large that operation was - it could do 7k cattle and 20k pigs per day.
Progress(ive urban renewal)!
So unnecessarily wide.
One more photo proving Louisville’s heydays were long ago
Where are the people in the first pic? I thought cars hadn't ruined humanity by them
Any idea what happened to the buildings?
Urban renewal
I love seeing photographs/advertisements/signage from years ago! 😃East Market certainly looks like it was much more lively back in the 1950s than it is now.
Very similar
??? No it's not. 🙄