University of Toledo - Blockhouse Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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Streets of Toledo, Spain HE absence of traffic in the maze of narrow wind- ing streets creates a silence uncommon in a city of 26,500 inhabitants. These narrow, almost ima passable streets were in ancient times of more pleasant aspect and very picturesque. The abundance of awnings, and the variety of colorful curtains hanging from the double arched windows gave these streets a very beautiful and gay appearance. On these streets met merchants of the Occident and Orient. Rich cloths, pearls from the Orient, coral from Barbary, jewels from Venice, amber and myrrh from Asia Minor, rugs from Persia, etc., were sold here. Madison Avenue, luletlu, Ohio

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- . 4 An, . V . 75:14 - ill W ' ' X V , .f ,fn . ff. , vs s ff R Us 5,6 Pip vk,A l'lvlvcv- Muwuni. House of El Greco, Toledo. Spain l,num Ilome ol Mme. Riviera. lformerly Mrs. George W. Stevens' Toledo, Ohio home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Stevens was built as we see it in the accompanying picture, a bit of Old Toledo on the banks ofthe Maumee River. One enters by way of an iron grill gate all green and crumbling with age to find on every hand Old World beautyg and one carries away a memory of ancient polychromed doors, of the great carved walnut fireplace with its heraldic tapestry, and of fine old Spanish furniture seen by the light of the tapers in a great cathedral candelabra.

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Plaza cle Zocodover HE Plaza ol' Zocodover is the center ol' life in Toledo. On one side of this square, sur- rounded by ancient buildings and a series ol arches and columns, one observes a picturesque scene, s s The Bloody Arch. This Moorish arch of simple but beautiful type, with what one sees behind it, truly form a picture worthy of contemplation, especially in the moonlight. This square is an historical one, where, in the course of time, all the languages of Europe have been spoken, and where during the most flourishing period, as on the streets, all the products of the Orient and Occident were displayed. Z , -g .JA W Zotodover Square, liueki:roui1di'I'l1e Alcazar. Toledo, Spain Street ol Santa lsahel. Baekuround Y Tower of the Cathedral. Toledo, Spain