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Photograph shows Northern Electric Railroad Tracks. The location is at where the Esplanade connects south and southwest to Main Street and west First Street, Chico. This image shows the tracks for electric railway. One set goes down Main Street and the other set goes down First Street in front of the Normal School. Newspaper clipping attched to photo: "50 years Ago. Once a trading store where gold dust and nuggets where swapped for slabs of bacon and gallons of whisky, the old Rynearson building at First and Main Streets shortly will be replaced by a service station where standard currency will be exchanged for "five gallons a' gas and check t' oil." The old brick structure was the last link of the new Chico with the former frontier town and its passing removes a time wheathered landmark. It is believed to date back to the Civil war and Horace Bailey, for many years a post office employee, declares that he bought a knife at the store there in 1865."
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