In keeping with roof articles which side of the street were the awnings on?

[SDFarmer]

I mentioned I had these aerial photos from the middle fifties. One thing I noticed was commercial buildings had awnings in front of them. The windows could also have yellow/orange-ish filters in the windows.

I'm not sure which side of the street had the awnings. Here in SD Main st. went North and South. I'm guessing the awnings where on the... heck, I don't know. I can make excuses for either side of the street, but the photos show a decided/one sided choice of awning population.

Anyone have any idea which side of the street the awnings on and why?

Ken

[NORCALLOGGER]

My guess would be the Westerly side of the street to block the afternoon sun  from entering the big store display windows and raising the temperatures inside the unconditioned and un-insulated buildings.

Or maybe it only rains on one side of the street at a time

[Lawton Maner]

Given the angle of the shadows. I will guess that the awnings are on the south facing sdie of the street and that the picture was taken near to mid-day.

Shal we convert this into a threads on modeling awnings?  I've used colored paper from Micheal's and a scrapbook decorative scissors to make them in the past, but can never get the curve in the canvas right.

[mabloodhound]

The shadows are much too long to be near mid-day.
I would agree with NORCAL that the West facing  windows would be most likely subject to the hottest sun.
But that's just a guess.

[Bill Gill]

Main St. here runs E-W. There are awnings on both sides though the stores along the North side of the street (facing south) usually have their awnings open all day all year, those on the south side (facing north) open theirs most of the time in the summer when the sun also shines in their windows.

The right side of the photo is already in shade, could be the awnings there are closed. Might all be open on a rainy/snowy day.

[SDFarmer]

The SD awnings were exclusively one side of the street and even funnier in my town of 250 at its height most of the town buildings were on the west side of main st.

Here are some scale awning companies. Maybe I should ask them.

http://www.frenchmanriver.com/Pages/Multiscale/Awning/awning.html

http://www.cityclassics.biz/awnings.html

Awnings on Atlas forum...
http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64068&whichpage=1

Model building from scratch... awnings somewhere in there.
http://www.building-your-model-railroad.com/model-buildings.html

Full scale awnings... and the awning images enlarge.
http://www.awnings.com/

WS Dugans paint store... maybe we should start a letter writing campaign (old school).
http://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/Item/BR5853/page/1?

Cardstock buildings with awnings... okay only a few but intriguing buildings. Kind of got lost in looking for awnings (come on give me a break).
http://www.clevermodels.net/models-gallery/

More cardstock... there are a lot of things these can be used for.
http://www.modelbuildings.org/

Printed buildings using Corflute...
http://www.oscalebuildings.com/

How to add awnings...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLxXgm2Cl4

How to add windows and signs... you follow the rest, but I learned a bit (yeah the expert, here).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfqWjQccuiI

Notice the roof detail... yes, my pet peeve is no roof detail. He adds black paint lines to his tarpaper. I learned from john doe after adding the paint to dust with rottenstone or chincilla dust (look'em up). Great filler!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmnpeVo4Xoo

BTW, I use duckduckgo.com as my search engine to get rid of all the paid advertising the other guys stear me toward.

Gonna' go, Judy is going to get to go for a car ride in a moment (my dog). She deserves it. I know she wants food or?? when she starts cleaning. Is it hormonal? Honestly anything laying on the floor is hers to clean. She will pick up whatever it is, bring it to me. I will put it in the trash or...she will wait to get petted and off she will go looking for more. Knocked over a stack of 200 paper plates last night and spent the night with her cleaning. I do need to get someone I can talk to.

Later,

Ken 

[Lawton Maner]

Since the carriages are all driving on the left and the buildings are all of the late Victorian architecture , I am guessing that the picture is of an English city.  Given that London is further north then New York City, I stand by my guess of mid-day as the angle of the sun would be lower there, even in the summer months.

[SDFarmer]

How about Oxford street in London. Seems the "Princess's Theatre" on Oxford St. is in the photo. The other tip off is all those large two wheeled carriages. They were not that popular in America.

The thing I want to know is what is that elephant doing on top of that carriage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%27s_Theatre,_London

I just wanted to find out about Awnings and why are they decidedly on one side of the street than the other so I could build an 1880's and later town.

I see so many layouts/dioramas that look like something is missing and my head just explodes when I discover something so simple as a lack of awnings or as my other pet peeve started, nude roofs.

Okay how about this one, DOGS, where are all the Dogs? They weren't running around neutering stray dogs in 1900. Heck women couldn't even vote back then. So whose got all the dogs? No, this is not an attack on women!

Ready for my future pet peeve? How about a total lack of electrical service. Electrical transmission wires in rural towns back then looked like a back alley in the middle east.

I have photos I have taken of an electricity plant in NE that had two large oil tanks out back, on the ground, that ran a boiler, engine and dynamo for a small town which is going to blow away, soon. 

When I think about it I'll bet this was not 24/7 power (which I will check on). The tanks didn't hold that much oil.

But, I'm getting off topic... I think I will go down to Nebraska and check on this. Let you know when I get back.

Ken

[Lawton Maner]

I'll agree with Oxford Street.  The elephant is some kind of advertising piece.  And, an additional clue that is England is the cab in front of the theater; smacks of Sherlock Holmes.

[mabloodhound]

good detective work

[Barney]

From the words of a family shop fitters and blind makers (over 100years old in the business) awnings / blinds would be fitted any side of the road not only to shade the sun/rain but also to protect the goods displayed outside the shops normally fruit and veg/hardware shops
photo 1 shows both sides
Barney

[Barney]

photo 2 - shows above most of the shops the awnings /shades folded back on both sides of the road
Barney