There are many people in Clintonville who can remember riding the various forms of transportation running up and down High Street. Here’s one.

Local rail expert Alex Campbell says,

That photograph was taken in the storage yard across from the North High Car House (next to Arcadia). The destination sign reads “S. High St.”.

This particular run would be north-south High St. The end of the line in 1947 was near Merrett St. on the south side to Blenheim Road.

[Image courtesy of Galen Gonser]

American Vitrified Products (formerly American Sewer Pipe) was located at 100 East Arcadia Avenue, at what we still tend to call the “Old North High School”. Here is an old advertisement for it, showing one style of tile made there.

In addition you can find some additional ads of the brickyard, and maps, at the web site of the Coalition United for Glen Echo.

242 East North Broadway used to have a horse stable; it was located behind what is now the garage at that address. The stable stood until the early 1970s, when the then-owner accidentally burned it down.

The story goes that his wife told him not to burn the rubbage so close to the stable! You’ll burn that building down! But her husband did it anyway, and she earned the sad right to say, “I told you so.”

Luckily the current owners have a photograph of that original stable.

[Image courtesy of Gary Means and Jane Hoffelt]

A lovely picture of the street at the intersection of West Orchard Lane and North High Street, looking north by northwest, on January 14, 1947. A Sinclair Station was located at the location of the current Donato’s Pizza, and Moore’s Auto Parts was where Momentum Natural Health Store is today. Gray’s Cut Rate Drug Store was next to Moore’s.

[Image courtesy of Galen Gonser]