Hobart from the Other Water Tower, 1931

Not the one the librarian climbed, but the new water tower at the east end of what would someday be Jerry Pavese Park. (To see the water tower, look straight up from the first "i" in "Historical" in this circa 1959 photo.) This time, the tower-climber was probably a high-school student, who took these photos printed in the 1931 Aurora yearbook.


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The first photo looks eastward along the Nickel Plate tracks. You can see the white steeple of the Unitarian church south of the tracks. I am not sure what that tower is, north of the tracks near the lake — perhaps it's for the police/fire radio, if such a thing existed in 1931?




In the second photo, we see the streetcar barns in the foreground, and then Third Street crossing the lake into the heart of downtown.




The photographer turned more westerly for the third photo. We see Third Street across the foreground, dotted with houses, and beyond it, I believe you can see streets all set out and ready to be built up — Burling Place, Court Street, West 2nd Street …




The fourth photo looks across the lake toward Wisconsin Street. Not much to see!




The last photo takes in the residential area south of downtown Hobart, on the banks of the lake — that is, the area of Water, Lake, 5th, 6th, 7th Streets.