Market Street looking north from 8th St., Chattanooga, TN, 1907

About this postcard

The view looks north up Market Street from Eighth Street, where trolley tracks run down the center of a wide dirt roadway. Horse-drawn wagons, buggies, and delivery carts line both curbs, and multi-story brick and stone commercial blocks flank the street. A tall building on the right carries a vertical sign for D. B. Loveman, the Chattanooga dry-goods and department store firm, with a furniture sign farther down the block. Utility poles and overhead wires cross the sky above the shop awnings. The mix of electric streetcar tracks, delivery wagons, and awnings shows a downtown commercial district in the years when trolleys and horse-drawn trade still shared the street.