Twelfth of twelve
posts reporting recently discovered color photos of major Davis business
locations taken in the “transforming” period of Davis history. The context of
the photos is explained in DHT post number 155, “Twelve Color Photos of
‘50s-‘70s Transforming Davis: Series Introduction.”
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| 1. Northwest Corner Anderson & Russell Circa '70 |
Snapshot number 12, labeled “1” in this post, is
truly remarkable because it is the result, I think, of an action Mr. Brinley planned
several years before when he stood in Anderson Road and made snapshot number 11
(the subject of the immediately previous post).
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| 2. Circa '60, Circa '70 & 2014 |
For the sixth time we know about, he is putting on visual
display the ’50-‘70s transformation of Davis.
In this specific shot we see that an auto service station is
at this corner and that the Russell Blvd. mall is in operation.
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In my view, this series of six “time-lapse” snapshots taken
by John Weber Brinley was and is a quite remarkable project. We have only begun
to think about its significance.
In the first post in this series, I reported that the hand
numbering on these pictures suggest they may be only a subset of a much larger
number of such pairs.
It is therefore conceivable that he left us an even richer
and fuller time-lapse snapshot history of a transforming Davis that we have yet
to discover.
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| 3. 2014 |
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| 4. Concept Drawing Published in the Davis Enterprise |
