104 Heck Avenue. Image is taken from the New Jersey Avenue side of the corner. (“The Wright Corner”) Mrs. Alice Holt, owner-manager. Date unknown. Heck Avenue is on the right. Eileen Goldfinger postcard. Click on photo to enlarge.
May 17, 2014. The front view: 104 Heck Ave perspective. New Jersey Avenue is to the left.
104 Heck Ave. as seen from New Jersey Avenue. May, 2014.
This house on the bottom is 104 Heck Ave. The house on the postcard is labeled 104 Heck Avenue. Both are on a corner, but the corners don’t match. What is going on here? Could the house numbers have been changed over the years with these houses actually being different?
Or could the negative have been flipped during the printing of the top image using a darkroom enlarger? I think the negative was flipped. Anybody have another idea? —Paul Goldfinger, editor @Blogfinger
Addendum: Subsequently we heard from Dave Shotwell Sr. who said that the postcard is a side view taken from the New Jersey Ave. side of the corner. So I went back and took that photo, so now you can see the truth. The image captions have been re-labeled.
DON McLEAN: “Castles in the air.”