Let’s Go Shopping!
1968 Ted’s Big Boy 1275 Reservoir
195
9
1963
1954
1973
Helen’s
Restaurant
1482 Park
Ave
1963
1937
Hillside Motor
Lodge
1970s
1950
1954
22
Rolfe
Street
1930s549 Reservoir Ave
1906
1963
1950s1525 Reservoir Ave
Lindy’s
Restaurant
659
Reservoir
Ave
1960
1970
Country House Restaurant
1604 Pontiac Avenue
1950s
1965
1970
1971
1972
1940s
196
Maxwell-Briscoe Motor
Company
Wellington Ave
c1910
1910 Model
Q Runabout
Neighborhoods
East
Street
Auburn
1908
c191
Park
Ave
1920s?
Park
& Reservoir
1971
Saint
Mary’s
1969
Broad
Street
1950s
Edgewood
Yacht Club
1908
Albin J. Johnson Bldg. Broad Street
May
Breakfast
Oak Lawn
1944
Wilbur
Ave.
Bridge
1920s
Knightsville
1910
Cranston St. & Gansett Ave. 1938
Pawtuxet
River
Early
1900s
What was your
phone
exchange?
Libraries
Arlington
Library
1901
Auburn
Library
637 Park
Ave.
Auburn Library 687 Park Ave.
Auburn
Library
Children’s
Room
1950s
Moving from
Park Ave to
Rolfe Square
late 1960s
Auburn
Library
50 Rolfe
Square
50 Rolfe
Street
Interior
1980s
Auburn Library Pontiac Ave
1991
Central
Library
1983
Broad
& Norwood
Streets
1901
Knightsville
Community
Library
1734
Cranston
Street
Knightsville
Library Ground
Breaking
1959
Knightsville Library 1970s
Knightsvile Library
Polenta Party
1982
William
Hall
Library
1941
Oak Lawn
Library
1938
Oak Lawn Library 1955
Oak Lawn
Library
Book
Mobile
1922
Breezy Bluff Summer House
1909
Breezy Bluff
Summer House
September
1938
Chestnut Grove
Arlington
1900s
Chestnut Grove
Arlington
1910s
Edgewood
Beach
1905
1912
Narragansett Park late 1800s
Narragansett
Speedway
1910s
1930
1909
1910s?
1941
Palace Cinema
1525 Broad St
Rainbo Cinema
392 Dyer Ave
Park
Cinema
1923
1926
1941
Coal, etc.
1915
1910
1960s
1930s
191
Gizmo
the
Robot
1954
Trains, Trolleys & Stations
Auburn Station from Park Avenue
Arlington
Station
Trolley
on Dyer
Ave.
Knightsville Station
Meshanticut
Station
Oak
Lawn
Station
1900
Oak
Lawn
Trolley
1935
Silver Hook Station
South
Auburn
Station
Print Works Station
Howard Station
Broad Street Trolley
Cranston
Street
1930s
Trolley on Cranston Street 1937
Cranston
School
Days
Arlington
Grammar
School
c1907
Eden
Park
School
c1897
Edgewood School 1908
Rhodes
School
1931
Shaw
Ave
School
1898
Thorton School 1908
Wayland
Park
School
1898
High School
Wellington
Ave.
1928
High School
Auditorium
1928
Rifle
Club
1950
1961
1963
1964 1965
1969
1970
State Institutions
1906
1900
1914
1910s?
1903
1909
1905
1905
One Last
Thing!
• Newspapers
• Cranston Herald (1936–present)
• Echoes of Cranston columns (digitized)
• Cranston Mirror, Cranston City Times, Cranston
Leader, Cranston News, Cranston Today, Howard
Times, Neighborhood News (microfilm)
• City Directories 1911 to present (incomplete)
• High School and Junior High School Yearbooks
(incomplete)
• City Tax Books (1865–1940s)
• Annual School Reports (1860-1939)
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