Photo looking eastward from about Lumber Street on Hamilton. Taken on a rainy summer day, probably about 1949/1950. Looking east at Center Square, the former Allen Hotel has been renovated, reduced to the three story Koch Brothers clothing store. Also note the Lehigh Valley Transit streetcar going eastbound, and the new LVT bus heading west on Hamilton. The colors of the bus matching that of the streetcar. The postwar automobile boom is evident with nearly all of the vehicles being of postwar image.