A presentation to the Cranston Historical Society, March 20th 2018

2. Let’s Go Shopping!

3. 1968 Ted’s Big Boy 1275 Reservoir

4. 195
9
1963

5. 1954

6. 1973

7. Helen’s
Restaurant
1482 Park
Ave
1963

8. 1937

9. Hillside Motor
Lodge
1970s

10. 1950

11. 1954
22
Rolfe
Street

12. 1930s549 Reservoir Ave

13. 1906

14. 1963

15. 1950s1525 Reservoir Ave

16. Lindy’s
Restaurant
659
Reservoir
Ave

17. 1960

18. 1970

19. Country House Restaurant
1604 Pontiac Avenue
1950s

20. 1965
1970

21. 1971
1972

22. 1940s

23. 196

24. Maxwell-Briscoe Motor
Company
Wellington Ave
c1910

25. 1910 Model
Q Runabout

26. Neighborhoods

27. East
Street
Auburn
1908

29. c191

30. Park
Ave
1920s?

31. Park
& Reservoir
1971

32. Saint
Mary’s
1969

33. Broad
Street
1950s

34. Edgewood
Yacht Club
1908

35. Albin J. Johnson Bldg. Broad Street

36. May
Breakfast
Oak Lawn
1944

37. Wilbur
Ave.
Bridge
1920s

38. Knightsville
1910

39. Cranston St. & Gansett Ave. 1938

40. Pawtuxet
River
Early
1900s

41. What was your
phone
exchange?

42. Libraries

43. Arlington
Library
1901

44. Auburn
Library
637 Park
Ave.

45. Auburn Library 687 Park Ave.

46. Auburn
Library
Children’s
Room
1950s

48. Moving from
Park Ave to
Rolfe Square
late 1960s

49. Auburn
Library
50 Rolfe
Square

50. 50 Rolfe
Street
Interior
1980s

51. Auburn Library Pontiac Ave
1991

52. Central
Library
1983

53. Broad
& Norwood
Streets
1901

54. Knightsville
Community
Library
1734
Cranston
Street

55. Knightsville
Library Ground
Breaking
1959

56. Knightsville Library 1970s

58. Knightsvile Library
Polenta Party
1982

59. William
Hall
Library
1941

60. Oak Lawn
Library
1938

61. Oak Lawn Library 1955

62. Oak Lawn
Library
Book
Mobile
1922

64. Breezy Bluff Summer House
1909

65. Breezy Bluff
Summer House
September
1938

66. Chestnut Grove
Arlington
1900s

67. Chestnut Grove
Arlington
1910s

68. Edgewood
Beach
1905

69. 1912

70. Narragansett Park late 1800s

71. Narragansett
Speedway
1910s

72. 1930

73. 1909

74. 1910s?

75. 1941
Palace Cinema
1525 Broad St
Rainbo Cinema
392 Dyer Ave

76. Park
Cinema
1923

77. 1926

78. 1941

79. Coal, etc.

80. 1915

81. 1910

82. 1960s

83. 1930s

84. 191

85. Gizmo
the
Robot
1954

86. Trains, Trolleys & Stations

87. Auburn Station from Park Avenue

88. Arlington
Station

89. Trolley
on Dyer
Ave.

90. Knightsville Station

91. Meshanticut
Station

92. Oak
Lawn
Station
1900

93. Oak
Lawn
Trolley
1935

94. Silver Hook Station

95. South
Auburn
Station

96. Print Works Station

97. Howard Station

98. Broad Street Trolley

99. Cranston
Street
1930s

100. Trolley on Cranston Street 1937

101. Cranston
School
Days

102. Arlington
Grammar
School

103. c1907

104. Eden
Park
School
c1897

105. Edgewood School 1908

106. Rhodes
School
1931

107. Shaw
Ave
School
1898

108. Thorton School 1908

109. Wayland
Park
School
1898

110. High School
Wellington
Ave.

111. 1928

112. High School
Auditorium
1928

113. Rifle
Club
1950

114. 1961

115. 1963

116. 1964 1965

117. 1969

118. 1970

119. State Institutions

120. 1906

121. 1900

122. 1914

124. 1910s?

125. 1903

126. 1909

127. 1905

128. 1905

130. One Last
Thing!

131. • Newspapers
• Cranston Herald (1936–present)
• Echoes of Cranston columns (digitized)
• Cranston Mirror, Cranston City Times, Cranston
Leader, Cranston News, Cranston Today, Howard
Times, Neighborhood News (microfilm)
• City Directories 1911 to present (incomplete)
• High School and Junior High School Yearbooks
(incomplete)
• City Tax Books (1865–1940s)
• Annual School Reports (1860-1939)

132. Click Here to Visit the
Cranston Image Page
and Map