Retiring Guy's Digest: U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 22: Cambridge Ohio)

Monday, September 9, 2024

U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 22: Cambridge Ohio)

That was then (1953).

Intro to chapter 22:

U.S. 40 passes through Cambridge along Wheeling Avenue, a street that like many others in the United States, takes its name from the town to which it heads. This picture, looking west, taken at eight on a misty September morning, with the first autumn leaves fallen, displays much of the atmosphere of the smaller American town -- even to the informality of the two sitters on the curbstone.

This is now.

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When author George R. Stewart drove through Cambridge in the early 1950s, the city's population was already in decline from its 1930 peak of 16,129. Since 1930, Cambridge's population has dropped 38%, and the city now has fewer residents than it did in the 1900s.