Places

Main Street, Dundee — Mid-Century (1930s–1970s)

Main Street, Dundee, from the 1930s through the 1970s, tracking the shift from streetcar-era storefronts to a car-dominated commercial strip — the period covered directly by the The Dollar-Developers Take Aim at Beautiful Old Fox River Towns warning that mall development threatened the historic district.

Main Street, Dundee, storefronts including a theater marquee reading — Storefronts including the "Dundee" theater marquee, cars consistent with the late 1930s–mid-1940s. Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com.

Main Street looking east, Dundee, Illinois — Town Tavern, Ron De Voo lunch counter, 1940s automobiles — "Main Street — Looking East, Dundee, Illinois" (postcard #5605), 1940s. Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com.

Kleinschmidt's Liquor Store and steak/burger restaurant, corner building, dated July 1961 — Corner building with Kleinschmidt's Liquor Store, Heileman's Old Style Lager and Hamm's Beer signage. Dated "JUL 61" on the original print border. Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com.

Main St. West, Dundee, Ill. — Ben Franklin 5&10, Bond Drugs, 1960s–70s color postcard — "Main St. West, Dundee, Ill." (postcard #E388E), color, showing Ben Franklin 5&10 and Bond Drugs. Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com.

Note: the same resident also submitted a black-and-white photograph of what appears to be the same "E388E" postcard (filed as `Dundee main street 4.jpg`/`Dundee main street 1655 4.jpg`, the latter already identified as an exact duplicate). Given the strong visual match to the color version above, all three files most likely represent one physical postcard — only the clearest color copy is featured here to avoid presenting one postcard as three separate photographs.

Sources

resident-photo-submission-2026-08-18 — Collected by a resident, sourced from FRVPL and Ancestry.com. Uploaded to Supabase Storage 2026-08-18.