Alright here is an easy one since vertually everyone here has been in the area of this place dozens of times, and yes it is downtown.
corner of wick and commerce?
Unfortunately no, it's not Wick and Commerce, but a good guess.
Market and Front?
No, its not Market and Front.
I will give this a shot. Corner of Commerce and Fifth? Or something and Fifth. Maybe Federal St??
Quote from: west side nosey neighbors on August 18, 2010, 06:09:18 PM
I will give this a shot. Corner of Commerce and Fifth? Or something and Fifth. Maybe Federal St??
That's what I was going to guess.
Sorry, but no cigar.
Darn! :'( The house at the top of the photo reminds me of a house that was only torn down in the last few years that was at the corner of Fifth and Wood.
Sorry.
Wick and Rayen Ave?
It's nowhere on either Wick or Fifth Avenue or Market Street
I guess this was tougher than I thought it would be, but it was located at Phelps and Commerce looking north to Wood Street before the railroads came to town.
Yes I can see how easy it would be to identify with not a single object in that photo existing at the present, not even the road remains. What a cinch!!! :)
Didn't say that it would be easy, so what do you want ... somethinng so easy that a first grader who never saw Youngstown could get it?
Our Forum Manager came very close to getting it, and a tip of the hat to her.
By the way, that road was still in existence as late as 1907 according to the Sanborne Fire Insurance Map. Any idea when it was finally closed and the bridge over the tracks built?
In fact Rick, it was still open as late as 1928.
:'( Yep "ooops" Sorry about that. ;D
Chock it up to old age.
I was joking! Lighten up!
I never knew Phelps went up the hill. Always thought that it dead ended there.
If I came off sounding like a grouch Rick, I'm sorry because I have a great deal of respect for you and all your work in preserving our steel history.
Might I also while I'm at it make this suggestion for your museum. A wall of fame containing pictures of the men who made the industry possable in Youngstown. I have many portraits of most of the men on my webshots site that you are free to download.
http://news.webshots.com/album/577689595eHamfF
I would like to create a steel wall of fame, but have not figured out just yet what it would look like or who would be included.
I enjoyed your photos but I didn't see Julian Kennedy's picture. Hey maybe that can be your next quiz question. Who was Julian Kennedy?
Strangely for as famous as he was, I couldn't find any pictures of him. J. G. Butler references him, but no pictures.
I did find one after all.