Depressing Scene On Post Card.

I am thinking the card dates to the Great Depression/Dust Bowl days.

Ah, dating!

You can see plenty of phone/power wires coming off of the poles, but you cannot see any wires strung between that small forest of insulators at the top of each pole.

That might suggest a particular upgrade project, and therefor date the card.

http://www.altuschamber.com/ ... The Altus Chamber of Commerce might know

Or, you could work your way down from:

http://www.wfec.com/about-wfec/member-co-ops ... Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), one of whose twenty-odd members serves Altus AFB

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (who has had some luck eMailing a postcard to the locals and asking for a date range)

It's not that depressing. The furniture store is still in business. Also from the style of the postcard I would say it predates the 1930's - probably late 1900's to before WWI.

The point about the postcard's livery is well-taken.

But that is a really nice paved sidewalk, especially for rural Oklahoma ... pre-WW1?

An eyewitness told me that Perry GA had wooden sidewalks "like from a Hollywood western" during WW2.

Perhaps someone at the Altus Chamber will remember when they paved the sidewalk.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Livery?

1909

The style of the back of the card - the draped American flag and the other printed portions are of the late 1900's-eary 1910's period.

... and the earlier card (well, the later card, in the thread) has that nice paved sidewalk alongside a dirt road!