Thursday, July 9, 2020

Main Street Pine Bluff photos July 2020

Cohen's Fashion Shop Sign...
... and storefront, 504 Main Street.
View looking south from 400 block of Main. Facades of Simmons Bank building and former Hotel Pines are barely visible behind the tops of the Bradford Pear trees. The Streetscape project (see north views below) has removed these overgrown trees in the 300 and 200 blocks of Main, and will later remove these, among other good things it's doing for Main Street.
Looking south again, now in the 300 block.  Simmons Bank and Hotel Pines are more visible here.  The old Kress department store is on the right, with only its walls and support beams remaining.
Looking north now, from railroad tracks. Streetscape project in full view.  Four photos below are close-ups of buildings on the right in this photo (east side of Main).

Sign and stairway leading to African-American attorney William Howard's former office, plus a currently unused storefront.
Wouldn't wanna have to live in this living refuge (this is on the west, Kress Building, side of Main).

Collapsed ceiling in building just south of alley next to Barre building (below). 
Former department store of Abraham Barre.
Pop's Barbershop, with customer leaving looking at his cellphone at left. The Barre building is just out of view to the right.
Mural of north view from 3rd and Main in 1888. Located catty-cornered from Pop's.
Current north view from 300 block of Main.
Current north view from 4th and Main, with a pile of paving bricks that date to around the 1880s.
New Pine Bluff-Jefferson County library under construction, west side of 6th and Main.