Dave Diamond sent us two pictures of the Jewell Road shelter in 1949 which I hadn't seen before, and so far these are the first pictures I've seen of its original location.
The first is looking northwest from the Jewell Road crossing. It appears to me there was no sign over the door, as I would have expected from the other similar shelters. And we don't have a sign, so perhaps it disappeared at an early age. The manual semaphore appears to be located directly in front of the door. There's a good-sized parking lot. And it looks like the station has its own mailbox -- why???
The second is looking southeast. Electric Avenue is seen in the distance, parallel to the track. The building appears to be slightly tilted forward.
Our thanks to Dave for making these available!
3 comments:
That mailbox might be for the house on the other side of Jewell. The house on that property at present looks to be about the right vintage to have been there when the picture was taken.
It looks like all the mailboxes on Jewell are on the same side of the street, so that could explain it.
If you look at the point where the flagpost meets the roofline in both photos, you can see it is located beyond the structure, away from the road. Maybe by a foot or two.
I guess that’s probably correct. At Diehl Road it was located at the other corner of the front.
I also think that you can see the faint outline of the signboard over the door. That suggests that it disappeared a relatively short time before 1949. In any case, I would say we don’t have to create a new signboard out of thin air.
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