YESTERYEAR: Â Northwest Fourth Street
BY PAT SIDES
This view of Fourth Street, looking towards Main Street, was taken from the steps of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum on Court Street, probably ca. 1950. Much of downtown Evansville would soon undergo sweeping physical changes as a result of the urban renewal movement, but nearly all of the buildings pictured here are still standing.
Most prominent is the Old Courthouse (left), which was the seat of county government until the Civic Center opened in 1969. Behind it is the Court Building, and farther down the same side of the street is the Sears store at Fourth and Sycamore.Â
On the corner at right is a Buick dealership in a building that has recently housed a small diner and another business. The turret of the Old Jail — now a law firm — is visible just beyond that, as is the Hulman building near Sears. In the far distance is the towering structure at Fourth and Main vacated by Hilliard Lyons a few years ago.
