(Source of image: 1940-1941 City of Jacksonville Yearbook)

After laborers removed trolley tracks from the Main and Forsyth corner in the early Forties, they installed new sewer pipes.  Their work is shown in this picture looking north up Main. 

The photo harkens back to an era when downtown Jax buzzed with shoppers.  The Boyd's Shoe Shop operated in the Woolworth Building, constructed in 1917 and still in use as an office building.  The small white storefront next to Woolworth was a Lerner Shop, part of a chain of women's clothing outlets.  The structure dates from about 1908, and it first housed a grocery store and then other businesses, including a saloon, a cigar store, and a billiard parlor.  Shortly Lerner moved in, it remodeled the building in about 1929.  The now-abandoned structure stands as a fine example of Art Deco.  The dark building to the right of Lerner is an old Kress store, situated at the intersection of Main and Adams.  When this outlet opened in 1912, Kress claimed that it ranked as the chain's largest branch and the world's third biggest "five, ten and twenty-five cent store." The structure is occupied by law offices today.

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