Category: Tobacconists
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Last time we went into the history of one corner of East Main Street and Elm with the entry Before Midtown; let us now cross over Elm Street to another history-rich lot of land. Vaguely triangular in shape, this expensive lot of commercial real estate was once the site of Rochester’s most prominent homes. For…
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Joe Wood, the famous wooden baseball player statue which stood resolutely before myriad tobacconists and saloons in old Rochester had a cousin: a jocular, rotund likeness of Samuel Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers written by Charles Dickens. The statue of Pickwick stood out front of a tobacconist on East Main Street, with his hand full…