"The signage on Frenchy Cafe and Dixon Grocery at least matches the 1948 photo...so I am saying this photo is pre 1950. we could use some help, ... not just because the monument in the middle of the Broad Street/Scott Street intersection is gone. Of course, the monument at the Scott Broad street intersection MIGHT be there, but if it is, the shadow is "between" the dots of the halftone picture.
The BANK OF CAMILLA does not yet have the tile front, the P&C building is not yet under construction...indeed, the land is not even cleared, and TOBY PALMER's SS is still on the SE corner of Broad and Harney. I also take note that S of Mitchell Drugs, Neil Palmer's fish market is not there.
There is no evidence of Palmer-Harrel Buick, there are NO aluminum street lights (they are there in the 1957 photos of the CENTENNIAL ed of the CAMILLA ENTERPRISE, also, the MAGNOLIA tree on the left front of the court house, here is still a tree that loses its leaves, in fact it looks like a Pecan Tree...There is no monument on the SE corner of the Court House Lawn to those who died in WW1, WW2 and Korea, and the tin pecan building on the SW Corner of Oakland and Scott is still seven stories.
I do not see Ed McKowen's GULF station on the SW corner of N Harney at Oakland or Rob Roy Cochran's PONTIAC dealership next to it or the old green concrete block Drewy's Building Supply. IF THE BIG BUILDING just NE of there is Drewy's old Building Supply, I think it burned in 53 or 54.
I do see the tobacco warehouse at the NW corner of Oakland and Harney and UNION SUPPLY CO GIN, that was torn down in 60 or 61 to make way for the PIGGLY WIGGLY. THEREFORE The 2-T-62 is not necessarily a Date.
It was probably taken in FALL or SPRING but not summer. I lean towards Spring might be the correct season because Pecan trees are notoriously late in leafing out, and the tree the E lawn has leaves, but does not look fully leafed out. "
If anyone can help us to date this photo, it would be greatly appreciated!
