Laconia Downtown vs Tilton Downtown

[AussieDog]

Originally Posted by fatnoah

For anyone who thinks urban renewal was a good thing, check out this page:
http://www.weirsbeach.com/Largejpgs/...wnlaconia.html

The page features many views of Banks Square, which was the intersection of Pleasant, Main, and Mill Streets.

I grew up in LA during the fifties. Wonderful to see the photos of how the downtown was back then before urban renewal. It seemed like a good idea at the time to some. Who knew? . The southern end of Main St was pretty shabby as I remember. It's to bad someone with vision couldn't have rescued the old storefronts.What a draw that would be now... Oh well.