Then and Now, Belmont-Parkside

It’s 1972 in the heart of the Belmont-Central shopping district. Electric trolley buses run on Belmont, and the Will Rogers Theater is showing Nicholas and Alexandra. Across the street from the theater, the Goldblatt’s Department Store has been expanded. The cars are big, bad, and loaded with chrome.

Forty-five years later, diesel buses have succeeded electric buses. The Will Rogers has been replaced by a strip mall, and the onetime Goldblatt’s store has been converted into Tony’s Fresh Market. You make your own call on the cars!

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