BRICK STREETS:  MAIN STREET IN ABOUT 1920

These twisty-turvy tracks used to run through the intersection of Main and Forsyth streets, two blocks west of the Florida Theater.  They were dug up after the demise of Jacksonville's streetcars during the mid 1930s.  Looking northward on a brick Main Street, this picture dates from about 1920. 

In the distance to the left is the old Rhodes furniture building. (It's the structure with "RE" on it, from the sign "Rhodes Furniture").  This building was imploded in 2002 to make way for the new Main Library.  On the right side stands the Savoy Theater, at the northeast corner of Main & Forsyth.  This is the pillared structure fronted by what appear to be movie posters on easels.  The showplace operated on the spot of today's seventeen-story Lynch Building (11E Forsyth Building), built in 1926.

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