Wednesday, July 20, 2011

James Smith Corner, 1930s


An S.C. Smith photo of trams crossing the intersection of Cuba (left to right) and Manners Streets in the 1930s.  From 1978 to quite recently Manners Street beyond the intersection was a pedestrian mall.  The former James Smith Department Store building on the right and the former Bank of NZ (which now calls itself bnz) building opposite it are still there; the rest have been replaced.

This was a photo considered for, but not used in the books Wellington Transport Memories and Wellington: a Capital Century.

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