Standing where so many have stood before. “Changing facades” – 1930 to 1948 to 2021…
Today’s Funday Monday excursion took us to three different eras on the same street corner. So much fun stepping back 143 years to 1878 when Campton’s General Store opened just South of the corner of Eighth St. and Spruce St. (now Main St.,) one of the busiest street corners in Old Downtown Newhall Ca. for over 14 decades.
Campton’s was changed to H.W. Bricker’s General Store in 1914 and is pictured in the photo from 1930. To the left of Bricker’s was a branch of the San Francisco-based Bank of Italy, opened in 1909, and renamed Bank of America in 1930.
By 1948 Bank of America had moved across the street and was replaced by Mike and Neil’s Dry Goods Market, shown below. Newhall Hardware, a Newhall icon for over 70 years, replaced Bricker’s General Store and to the right, a brand new Safeway Supermarket had opened its doors, also shown in the 1948 photo below.
It’s one thing to imagine what it must have looked like, but it’s so much fun to stand on the street corner and see and compare what it actually looked like almost 100 years ago. Happy Fall to all. Stay safe.