Streetcar Track on Franklin Street

ID: 2225 ~ Source: USI Special Collections, via Historic Evansville http://historicevansville.com/image.php?id=street%2FFranklin+St%2C+from+Tenth+%281926+Oct+11%29.jpg ~ Date: October 1926
This file appears in: Hagedorn's
Streetcar Track on Franklin Street

This image shows streetcar tracks being installed on Franklin Street in 1926. The Hagedorn’s building, which then would have been Herke’s Pool Room, is one of the buildings on the right side of the street.

This file appears in: Hagedorn's

By Vanderburgh County Historical Society
There was a time when Evansville’s west side was known as Independence and every corner on Franklin Street was home to a saloon. Originally part of the town of Lamasco platted in 1837, the neighborhood west of Pigeon Creek grew up independently…