Then and now: First Christian Church, Mayfield Kentucky

 

Then:  A linen postcard view.  

This style of postcard was popular from the early 1930s to the mid-1940s.

Postcard from Retiring Guy's collection

Now.  After a tornado roared through Mayfield late Friday evening, December 10, 2021.

Photo credit:  Transylvania University

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Louisville Courier-Journal, 12/12/2021

Small tornadoes visited Mayfield when we lived there. They did some damage. The great ice storm of 2009 hit Mayfield hard; we lost power and several trees. But the photos and videos we are now seeing of Mayfield look like images from Berlin in 1945. 

Evidently, the storm spared our old neighborhood in south Mayfield. But apparently, almost everything north of Broadway, the main street, is gone. So are other parts of the town.