Hobart Then and Now: Third and Center, NE Corner

???? and 2011:



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Top image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

The top image shows the Amazon restaurant on the northeast corner of Third and Center Streets. The photo is undated. If you really want me to guess at its date … well, based on my general loosey-goosey impression of the clothing styles, I'd say 1910, give or take ten years.

Here's a photo of the restaurant in 1917. It's the building furthest to the right in the background. (The photographer was standing on Third Street, east of Center Street, and looking west toward Main. The man in the wheelchair is B.B. Bale.)


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

I don't know when the building was built, nor what, if anything, it was before it was the Amazon restaurant. That, I know, was in business by 1918, and perhaps much earlier (I wasn't paying enough attention while reading the early-20th-century papers to get a more specific idea).

Sometime later this building became Amlong's restaurant. Or, at least, that's what someone has written on the back of this undated photo:


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

Amlong's Restaurant had previously operated in the former Hobart House building. In Hobart High School's 1927 Aurora, we find the two restaurants advertising side by side:


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And here's a view of the interior of Amlong's circa 1927, when it was still in the Hobart House building.


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I do not know when the building at Third and Center was demolished. I think it was gone by the time they took that 1952 aerial photo on display in the window of that one building on East Third Street.