The bending streetcar tracks run northeast up North Winooski Avenue in this 1931 McAllister photograph, amidst worn pavement showing glimpses of the old cobblestones that remain buried underneath the asphalt.

The building on the right, 160 North Winooski Avenue and 264 North Street, is a two-story, brick, Italiante-style, wedge-shaped structure, with a semicircular backside and a one-story wing out the rear of the building visible in this photograph. In 1932, Julius Shelansky owned the building where he lived in the second floor, and ran his dry goods store out of the first floor of his home.[1]

In the gable-fronted home to the left of the image, #161, lived Jesse Stockwell and Harry Smith, who also ran an antiques store out of the same building. Their neighbor up the street at #165 was George Brew, a local carpenter.[2]