A woman pulling a car by her teeth. Five men stand on the car's running boards as bystanders line the sidewalk. The stores visible are Nylin's Shoes, Castle's Hair Store, and De Luxe restaurant. The storefront signs read: "Nylin's shoes: quality and style, shoes $5.85;" "266 De Luxe Restaurant;" "268 Castle's Hair Store." Castle's was founded by Arthur F. Castle in 1920 and his first store was located at 70 First Street in San Jose, California. Written on verso: "Nancy C. Brown, 281 S. 9th St., San Jose, California." This image in SVHO. Metadata indicates photograph has information written on verso, dates photo circa 1926. URL: http://content.scu.edu/u?/svhocdm,97 Castle's Hair Store: source http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/afcastle.html Brown who is identified in note on verso could have been woman pulling car or Brown could have been the owner of the photo. Don't believe address listed is where photo was taken. Could have been Brown's residence. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
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