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#172 East Main Street near 10th Street in downtown Richmond, with Rao’s Restaurant on the corner at left, 1953.

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#172 East Main Street near 10th Street in downtown Richmond, with Rao’s Restaurant on the corner at left, 1953.

What Richmond, Virginia looked like in the 1950s through Historical Photos

#172 East Main Street near 10th Street in downtown Richmond, with Rao’s Restaurant on the corner at left, 1953.

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←#171 The First Market building, which was razed in 1961. This site now houses the 17th Street Farmers Market, but its history as a public gathering place and market dates to the 1700s, 1953.
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