The traffic that once congested the Capital Square is evident in this 1933 view of automobiles and traffic police looking south at the corner of Mifflin and Carroll streets. Prominent buildings on Carroll Street include the Grace Episcopal Church and the Gay Building. SHSW WHi(X3)35314

For the second time in a single generation, city boundaries were shattered and expanded by changing transportation technology, first by the electric streetcar in the 1890s and then by the auto in the early twentieth century . . . By allowing greater locational freedom and by making the more widely sought-after suburban amenities available to more people, the auto merely accelerated and made more pervasive what the streetcar had done before. David Mollenhoff, 1982

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