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A retail street at the intersection of East Oat Avenue. Cars and trucks are parked in the middle of the street. The shops are: a drugstore, Guernsey's Bakery, a creamery, and Ford and Lincoln repair shop. Triangle flag-banners hang over the street.
1923
Gillett, Sherwin
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