This is the second 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.”
The centerpiece snapshot of this post--labeled “1”--is not a
mere snapshot.
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| 1. G St. 200s Looking East Circa '70 |
Instead, it is extraordinary because it is one of six snapshots
of its kind to be presented in this series that was carefully created several
years after a previous snapshot of the same Davis street scene.
In this instance, this number 1 is the follow up of the
snapshot labeled 1 in the previous post.
This follow-up is of course an east-facing view of the G
Street 200s block taken, I am guessing, about 1970.
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| 2. '60s Views & Today |
And we see a radical contrast between the view of circa 1960
and that of circa 1970.
Four buildings have been razed and a parking lot and small
plaza put in their place.
The two buildings at the northeast corner of the block have
been extensively remodeled and upgraded.
On the far right, we see in the shadows the “western” style porch
overhang that has been fitted onto the front of the Terminal Hotel.
As chance would have it, from time to time over the years I
have made digital copies of Davis
Enterprise graphics pertaining to the east side of the G Street 200s in the
1960s period. I searched through these images and found six that strike me as providing
useful context for the two color snapshots. They are presented here numbered 6
through 11.
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| 3. Left Detail |
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| 4. Center Detail |
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| 5. Right Detail |
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| 6. 1963 Vision |
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| 7. Scene at Dedication, 1964 |
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| 8. Enterprise, March 5, 1964 |
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| 9. New Davis Lumber Building |
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| 10. Plaza Event |
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