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Title: Main Street Storefronts
Description: View looking south of storefronts on Main Street in Midtown just south of its intersection with Westport Road. Several cars can be seen parked and traveling along Main Street. Sings for Clint's Comics, Love Records, The Shape Shop, JR's Discount, Jo Art's Jewelry, Westport Distributors, Harling's Upstairs, and the Salvation Army Thrift Store can be seen. The Hyde Park Building, the Southwell Building, and the Hotel Netherlands are in view.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Main Street Storefronts
Description: View looking southeast of storefronts on Main Street in Midtown from just south of its intersection with 39th Street. Cars traveling along Main Street are in view. Signs for the Christian Science Reading Room, the Second Fiddle Thrift Shop, the Salvation Army Thrift Store, Westport Distributors, Jo Art's Jewelry, Moten's Shoe Repair. JR's Discount, Harling's Upstairs, Clint's Comics, and Love Records can be seen. St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Southwell Building can be seen.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: View looking southeast of the Southwell Building on Main Street in Midtown from just north of its intersection with Westport Road. Cars parked along Main Street can be seen. Signs for JR's Discount, the Shape Shop, Harling's Upstairs, Love Records, and Clint's Comics are in view.
Date: 1985~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3251-57 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1981. Signs advertize the House of Chun Chinese restaurant and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar, and a section of the Warner Plaza apartments are visible at the left of the image. A twin building stood across Warner Plaza to the north. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: 3235-57 Main Street
Description: Photograph of a building at 3251-3257 Main, on the southeast corner of Main Street and Warner Plaza, circa 1990. Signs advertise the Cellblock bar and the adjacent Kon Tiki Room tiki bar. The area, south of Linwood Boulevard to 34th Street, between Main and Gillham, was deemed blighted and ridden with crime in drugs in the late 1980s, and these buildings, as well as other homes, apartments, and commercial buildings, were demolished in the early and mid-'90s as part of the so-called "Glover Plan" to be replaced by the Midtown Marketplace development, a large commercial development anchored by big box retailers Home Depot and Costco. The adjacent apartments appear to have been demolished in this image.
Date: 1990~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Southwell Building
Description: Photograph of the Southwell Building at the intersection of Main Street and Westport Road, in the late 1970s. The building was designed by architects McKecknie and Trask and opened in 1929. A real estate sign hangs in the window of the storefront at 3935 Main, which was recently occupied by Howard E. Thruman Institutional Church, and a door to the second-floor Harling's Upstairs Bar and Grill can be seen at the right of the image. Moten's Shoe Repair occupies the neighboring building to the north.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

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