One more trip for us this week into the streets of Timmins in the 1920s, as our local history feature looks at the early days of cars.
Last week, local historian Karen Bachmann told us how lines were painted on the roads to delineate between the pedestrian and vehicle areas.
“Police were also charged with directing traffic at the corner of Pine and Fourth Ave., which is now Pine and Algonquin,” she says. “And they did that at noon and at 4pm because across was Central School, and when the kids came out of school, they just ran into the street and everybody had to really kind of figure out what the heck was going on.”
“They had also things that they put in the middle of the street that were called fake policemen or dummy policemen, but they were actually just a little post that would warn drivers ‘Remember, you have to stop here, because you’re going to run over somebody.”
We thank Karen Bachmann for her ongoing support of our weekly look at Timmins history.
