Above: I had seen this early 20th century postcard photo many times of Ampere looking east with that building in the distance, but it looked like a modern office building and I couldn't figure out why there would be a huge, somewhat modern looking 4 or 5 story office building in that neighborhood in the early 1900's. Now I know it was a "factory," a gigantic bakery. The Ward Bakery (makers of Tip Top Bread) building was built about 1916. A 1917 Moody's report said the "factory" could turn out 120,000 loaves in ten hours. View is looking east down 4th Ave. across the intersection of 4th Ave. and 18th St. It looks like 4th goes under the RR which wasn't elevated till about 1922 so photo is probably circa 1925. Stockton students were walked over there as a field trip in the 1st or 2nd grade.
Above: view is looking west; Columbian School is to photographer's left.
Above: view is looking south down N. 16th St, across 4th Avenue; railroad tracks are behind the photographer and to his left; 4th Avenue railroad crossing is to the left.
I saw your blog through Geneabloggers. Do you know if the early school registers have survived and if so where they are located?
ReplyDeleteRegards, Jim
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