“Everyday Life” on Elm Street — ca. 1905
by Paula Bosse
Elm Street rush hour
by Paula Bosse
Automobiles would be rolling down Elm Street very soon, but even when the traffic was still mostly horse-related, there’s a lot going on here: horses, buggies, barrels, saloons, a bored kid on a wagon, a street car, and the Wilson Building.
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And what was The Mint? The Mint was a saloon. I’m not sure when it first set up shop in Dallas, but it was listed in an 1877 directory, one of the city’s earliest.
Speaking of 1877, read about a typical frontier day at The Mint in two accounts of a stabbing, from The Dallas Herald in April, 1877, here, and the follow-up, here.
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Sources & Notes
Photo is from a stereograph titled “Everyday Life, Elm Street, Dallas, Tex.” from the Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California at Riverside; it can be accessed here.
Images larger when clicked.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
Like the kid on the wagon a whole lot; wonder if he got wet in that shower? And looming over The Mint is one of Nabisco’s Uneeda Biscuit signs. Nation-wide advertising has well and truly arrived!
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Thew mint was a saloon and a great one at that……the iron cast store front was a very good logo that had European facade from New York and St Louis…Dallas in 1905 was a perfect time and place with so many German Immigrants that you hear so little about….great story….
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