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"The Red Front Hardware Store" owned by John A. Perry. It was located on the south side of Front street about 100' west of Cass Street. His wife Caroline ran a boarding house she called Locust Grove Cottage. The hardware store was purchased by…

Chamber of Commerce event in 1915 to encourage the growth of traverse City. Cars with the signs in front of the City Opera house may have been part of a parade.

Photo of the Saladin Oriental Band. in a Cherry Festival parade, coming off E. Front Street and heading south on S. Union Street. Background signs include: Montgomery Wards, Sears, Michigan Theater, Haddon's Shoes, Stacey's Restaurant, Petertyl's…

An early picture of the Grand Traverse Auto Company Ford dealership, 130-134 Front Street location. Cars and people out in front. Earlier this was the Straub and Amiotte candy factory and store.

Picture of two ladies in front of the Hanah & Lay store on Front Street. One is sitting in a buggy. The Beadle building is in the background.

Sleigh on Front Street with officers, bottles & confiscated alcohol following a raid. Parts of the still is in one of the barrels.

World War II paper drive on Front Street. L-R : Louis Culman, Unk, Thomas Haywood, Jack Sheets.

Eugene Courtade in uniform downtown.

The Masonic building on the SE corner of Front and Union streets. The wagon has a load of fruit baskets headed for old Mission peninsula. (The baskets may have come from the Wells-Higman Basket factory.) The left man on the top of the load was Earl…

Alley view of Votruba's leather good store.