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Home » Photos of the Month » 2010 » It’s Here!

Photo of The Month – Aug 2010

It’s Here!

Picture contributor: Hazel Haynes Bridges Collection

The square is filled with Model Ts and perhaps 200 people milling about in front of the company store building.
It’s Here!

It’s not the sale that’s “here,” it’s some unique product, for upon close examination, the sign says “High Powered…Rapid Speed.” And it appears to be a raffle drawing, for the time is 1:51 p.m., so they’re not just waiting around for the store to open. And up on the roof, a man with a megaphone is addressing the crowd. Perhaps he’s telling them that, in just nine minutes, someone will walk away with a brand new…what? We’d guess a clothes washer, except there are few women in the crowd.

  • The Cliffside Drug Store and, next door, the Haynes Bank are easily identified by their own individual signs.
  • Although many are wearing heavy coats, signifying cold weather, the town hall’s windows are open. Probably airing it our after a long speech the night before by some politician.
  • There’s a large poster in front of the theatre advertising the current movie, “Greed,” MGM’s first full-length feature. It was released in January, 1924, and apparently had reached Cliffside soon thereafter.
  • Downtown had one major streetlight, hanging way out over the street.
  • And finally, a man in the foreground is about to miss the fun. Something’s wrong with his Model T and he’s busy under the hood, looking for the problem.

Here are some closeups.

A montage of closeups from the main photo

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