"Chillicothe St."  Floodwall Mural painting. Portsmouth (Ohio)

 Mighty Ohio river. This river brings the life to all cities and 
communities along his course, but sometimes terrific floods 
were signal for great disaster and desolation.
   Because of this many cities along the river build up 
floodwalls in the first decades of the XX century, to protect 
populations and homes.
Among them, some cities had the bright idea to decorate the 
walls with mural paintings depicting scenes of the region.
Portsmouth, Steubenville . .   We show a detail of the walls 
of the city of Portsmouth, in Ohio. Artist Robert Dafford left 
some urban scenes as this "Chillicothe Street".

            This may be the original cristal bottle of Coca-Cola.
  
Did you know that was first designed and produced in 1915 in Rott-Glass Co. 
of Terre Haute (Indiana) ?
In fact the region was a major producer of glass in this golden days.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana produced more than 75% of
American glass in the first decades of XX century.
The factories used raw materials found in the region and gas of the fields of
West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana.
Among the cities with the most important glass industry:

 º Pittsburgh  º Jeannette  º Glassport
 º Wheeling    º Bellaire   º Clarksburg  º Bridgeport   º Parkersburg
 º Morgantown  º Huntington
 º Cambridge  º Newark   º Findlay   º Toledo
 º Muncie  º Marion  º Kokomo  º Anderson
 º Terre Haute  º Vincennes

                South Shore Line railway 

                  Look carefully at this old poster. 
       Railroad memorabilia with a geographic sense.

The South Shore Line was stablished at the beginnings of the
XX Century and served northwest Indiana region from South Bend
to Hammond, and then to the great city of Chicago by the Illinois 
Central railroad.

A densely populated region (South Bend, Michigan City, LaPorte,
Burns Harbor, Valparaiso,Portage,  Indiana Harbor, Gary, 
Hammond) that commuted daily to Chicago.

And of course most Chicagoans used the South Shore Line to
visit some places of Northern Indiana as the Indiana Dunes.
In Porter County, the Indiana Dunes Lakeshore was a major
spot for vacation and beach afternoons.

A wide campaing by the South Shore Line promoted this region
with posters and brochures displayed at all stations and depots
of the region.