CAT Tracks for October 25, 2011

CAT Tracks for October 25, 2011

BEFORE & AFTER...PART 3

I know, I know...

...yesterday I intimated that I was probably done with my "Before and After" series.

Two things:

The pics below were already in "the pipeline" so to speak. Even had my subtitle selected: "As Different as Night and Day".

If not this...what? Words of Wisdom from Arne Duncan? Dazzling Innovations in Differentiated Instruction? Purported Transcript of a 9-1-1 Call From Some Guy Named Tony to the St. Louis Rally Squirrel?

So...
...without further ado:

Rhodes Burford furniture store long ago...lighted display windows, awaiting curious shoppers...

Rhodes Burford furniture store this week...windows knocked out long ago, awaiting "Phase III" of Cairo's downtown demolition...

Standing in the street in front of Smith and Groves at 8th and Commercial looking north, circa 1969...

Standing in the street in front of where Smith and Groves used to be looking north, last week...