Waco street scenes
By Terri Jo Ryan
Tribune-Herald staff writer
The streets of Waco have been the scene of commerce and gunfights, parades and performances in the more than 150 years since the city’s founding.
Countless portraits of ordinary life here have been captured by amateur and professional photographers alike.
For example, the federal government hired photographers during the Great Depression to get pictures of rural life and the hard times, including scenes of Waco. Later projects of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information documented the home front during World War II.
Some of the other images featured here were taken by Billy C. Loden, now of Lorena, as homework assignments while he was in college. The Waco native took two photojournalism classes at Baylor University in 1960.
He documented the same intersection (Fifth Street at Speight Avenue) from different angles, and used time-lapse exposure to capture night lights downtown.
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