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Then and Now - Cordova St looking West from Carrall

We've published a lot of photos from the City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives over the years but somehow none have felt as "wild West" as this one shot in 1887 looking West down Cordova Street from Carrall.

We've published a lot of photos from the City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives over the years but somehow none have felt as "wild West" as this one shot in 1887 looking West down Cordova Street from Carrall. I don't know if it's the absence of much activity save for that one guy and his horse giving the illusion that a shootout was about to go down, or if it's the angle that smacks of an old Clint Eastwood film, but there's just something about it.

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It's a far cry from what the street looks like today from the same angle, captured by Google's Street View robot on top of their modern day chuckwagon!

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