"Broad Street and Court Street Bridges and N. Y. State Barge Canal Terminal, Rochester, N. Y."
Postmarked 1923
Wm. Jubb Co., Inc., Syracuse, N. Y.
Number: 107036
"Broad Street and Court Street Bridges and N. Y. State Barge Canal Terminal, Rochester, N. Y."
Postmarked 1923
Wm. Jubb Co., Inc., Syracuse, N. Y.
Number: 107036
The description on this card is wrong. The Barge Canal never went through downtown. The aqueduct for the old Erie Canal was roofed over and created the Broad St. bridge. Below the highway was the Rochester subway in the old bed of the canal.
"New Subway and Bridge across Genesee River, Rochester, N. Y.
Postmarked 1925
Wm. Jubb Co., Inc., Syracuse, N. Y.
Number: A-102187
From the 1920s to the early 1950s the subway ran under the highway in the old Erie Canal bed of the Broad Street Bridge.
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