America Through Time

Aerial view of downtown Atlanta, looking southeast, in 1946.

McFarlan's Gulf Service Station on the corner of Bigelow Boulevard and Bloomfield Bridge in Pittsburgh in 1921

Photo courtesy of University of Pittsburgh

Galveston in 1920

Photo credit: Bettmann / Bettmann Archive

Austin Avenue in Waco in the late 1950s

Photo courtesy of Act Locally Waco

Shiner, Texas about 1905

Photo courtesy of Wolters Memorial Museum

An electric streetcar in El Paso in 1902

Streetcar service began in El Paso in 1881, and grew quickly in both service lines and popularity. The streetcars connected El Paso neighborhoods with Fort Bliss and provided a better way to travel across the border into Juárez, Mexico. In 1901, El Paso Electric Railway Company formed and began laying the first tracks for the new electric railway. In 1902, mule-drawn streetcars are replaced with electric streetcars.

Photo courtesy of Moving Forward: El Paso’s Streetcar History

Grand opening of the H-E-B on Nogalitos Street in San Antonio in 1945

Photo courtesy of H-E-B

Whataburger in Kingsville in the 1960s

Photo courtesy of Whataburger