Mystery Photos, courtesy of Don Pyeatt, Part 2

This photograph is fascinating for both the questions it raises and a possible connection with the photo you saw in my previous post. The four children in the photo appear to be the same four children seen in the first photo, but about two years or so older. From a time frame standpoint, it fits rather neatly because the car parked at the curb behind them is most likely a 1927 Dodge Brothers Sedan. The wood spoked wheels are the same, as well as the suicide doors.


When you crop portions of the photo that focuses on the car windows, you find that the business across the street carries the name ‘Edwards Drug Co.’









Also, to the left of Edwards Drug Co. is an A & P market. In case you are saying you can’t find it, look across the street, just to the left of the back of the car and just to the right of the man on the walk. You see a more or less pyramidal structure which is, in actual fact, a grocery product display stack. Just a little ways above it and indistinct without enlarging the photo considerably, are the letters A&P.

That’s essentially all the information you can get from the photo. Now we’re back to questions about the mysteries raised:

1. Are the children really the same ones in the Touring Car photo?

2. Who are they?

3. What’s the location of the photo?

4. Who was the photographer?

5. Who owned the vehicle and what was their economic status? You have to remember that anyone who owned a car selling for nearly $1,000 in that time period was quite well off.

6. Finally, since Black Friday and the start of the Great Depression was no more than two years away, you have to wonder what effect it had on this group of residents.

As so often happens when dealing with old, unidentified photos, a simple question leads to another...and another...and another....and.......