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Poster for the Paradise Skating Rink located at 375 River Street, Montpelier. Poster shows a Caucasian family of three holding hands and smiling while roller skating. The mother and daughter match with blonde bobs, white sweaters and roller skates,…

View of the Barre-Montpelier Road looking east toward Barre from the approximate location of today's Burger King at 1331 Barre-Montpelier Road. The stacked lumber is near where a large building that houses the Vermont Lottery Commission and Express…

View of a defunct gas station at 360 North Main Street, Barre, with a bicyclist riding in the foreground. In 1971 this was known as "Fred's Blue Sunoco." There is a residential building and what looks to be an industrial structure of some kind to the…

Abandoned storefront of Flowers by Bergeron in Barre, Vermont, covered with circus posters. The store, which was located at 367 North Main Street, was demolished for an in-town shopping center soon after this photograph was taken.

Brown's Pharmacy storefront at 373 North Main St. in Barre, Vermont. Sign in left window states "Opening in new location Monday June 3rd." There is a reflection of a car and opposite building in the left window, a reflection of opposite building in…

Pile of rubble from building demolition in Barre, Vermont. Image includes partially visible painted Coca-Cola sign on building wall rubble, windows with no glass, the shadow of crane on the building. This may be Dente's store at 387 North Main…

Interior of abandoned school room in Barre, Vermont, with lurid writing on chalkboard, natural light streaming in through windows, and curtain left partially unrolled on dirty floor. Location of school is unknown, but it may be the North Barre School…

Exterior of an abandoned storefront in Barre, Vermont. The left storefront window is covered with a tarp from inside the building and the reflection of trees opposite is visible in the window. There is a padlock on door, overgrown grass, a crack in…

Residence at 372 North Main Street, Barre, Vermont (corner of North Main Street and Vermont Route 62). Shows ornate residence, traffic signs, intersection, car driving past, pedestrian on sidewalk, and landscaper or service crew member. This is…

View of the "Welcome to Barre, Granite Center of the World" sign on North Main St. / US Route 302 near what is now (2021) the Vermont Granite Museum. Across the road to the left is another sign that reads "Think," a Smokey the Bear Forest fire…

Sign in Montpelier, Vermont, near the intersection of US Routes 2 and 302, directing motorists easterly to Barre on Route 302. The photograph includes the road itself, a railroad bridge, and another sign reading "Go Right Any Time to Barre." A modern…

Three traffic signs on the Barre-Montpelier Road / US Route 302 in Berlin, Vermont. The signs are on one signpost with arrows all pointing in the same direction off to the right of the frame. The signs read: "Montpelier Lane, Keep Right, and One…