Facing east on North Street with Rose Street entering on the left. August 1930. (18T 0641798 UTM 4927251)

One of the goals of the construction work that began on North Street in August of 1930 was the removal of the streetcar tracks visible running down the center of this image.  City reports from 1930 reveal that the newly formed Burlington Rapid Transit Company supplied funds for this portion of the street work, [1] presumably to eliminate competition for the business of public transportation.

On the left of the frame 144 and 146 North Street occupy the corner of Rose Street and North Street.  This two-story wooden framed, gable-front building, with large storefront windows on the Rose Street and North Street sides, formerly operated as an I.G.A. food store when Louis McAllister took this photograph.  A Sanborn Map from 1912 lists the business there as a gentleman’s shop and tailor. [2]   It is unclear when the two bay addition in the east side of the building was completed or when the buildings in the rear were incorporated into the structure.