Gazing southwest down North Winooski Avenue in the fall of 1932, One can see a strip of smooth, fresh, unbroken macadam running down the street all the way to North Street. The second phase of the repaving project that encompassed this entire upper half of the avenue had just been completed and McAllister was documenting the product of all the street department’s hard work.[1]

To the left of the frame, the Independent Products Association Gas and Oil station is ready for business.[2] The owner of the station at 358 North Winooski Avenue was Moses Perelman, who also ran the main office of this business on Intervale Road.

One door down at #354, in what looks like a plain Victorian home of the late 1800s lived no one in 1932. Rather, the building was used for storage.[3] Judging from the sign in the front yard, the building was rented by Mylke’s Antique shop on Hyde Street to store excess merchandise.

The middle home in this row of nearly identical two-and-a-half story Victorians, #348, was home to Mitchell Provost, an employee of E. B. & A. C. Whiting Co., and William Sullivan.[4]

The final house in this string of triplets, #344, was the single-family home of Mrs. Sarah Smith, a widow of her former husband Sammuel.[5]

The two-story Italianate building farther down the street was the home and dry goods store of Aaron Perelman, probably of some relation to Moses Perelman who ran the gas station at the top of the street, and Isaac Perelman who operated a real estate business in #336.[6]

The white, one-story, stuccoed building across the street is the headquarters and main office for Burlington Rapid Transit and Vermont Transit Co., operators of both local and regional bus service.[7]