The Sepia Saturday prompt this week shows a store front
What you are looking at here in both the postcard and more recent Google earth photo is Pleasant Street in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Number 11 Pleasant Street is on the left side with the blue store front. It's the home of Annie's handcrafted jewelry.
Pleasant Street has always been to my recollection a one-way street with the traffic headed toward the church you see off to the right. But from the postcard view the traffic looks as though it flowed both ways. There was even a street car line. I suppose horse and carriage and street cars were not as powerful and bulky as automobiles are nowadays.
The building immediately to the left was once an S.S. Kresge (forerunner to today's K-Mart) and J.J. Newbury, both 5&10 type stores. Immediately to the right was Eaton's Apothecary, one of Newburyport's last independent pharmacies. (There is one left)
Further on the left, the five story brick building, was a sho…