Main Street Looking South

ID: 2322 ~ Source: Norbert Brown Collection, Knox County Public Library ~ Date: 1906

This file appears in: Gimbel Corner

This photo shows the Streetcar traveling down a busy dirt Main Street. Note the well-dressed people. Many of the buildings in this photo are still standing today.

This file appears in: Gimbel Corner

Gimbel Corner

By Knox County Public Library

You are now standing on the corner where one of the world’s largest department store empires began. Adam Gimbel was a Jewish man who came to the US from Bavaria (in what is now Germany) and arrived in New Orleans around 1830. At the age of…