Photograph shows Plumridge Store and nearby telephone and power lines weighed down by ice. A figure stands in the centre of the frame, at the edge of the street.
Spanning more than six decades, the Carl Klenk postcard collection was collected between 1947 and 2015. It is comprised of 870 black / white and color postcards providing a visual record of Mission and communities in the lower and upper Fraser Valley, including: Dewdney, Harrison Hot Springs, Hatzic, and Nicomen Island. Of note in the collection is more than 40 postcards of Mission’s most storied street – First Avenue, originally called Washington Street.
Item is a photograph of sidewalk outside Routledge Motors. Five people are meeting outside the building. Several advertising signs are displayed on the building and a post outside. The Canadian Bank of Commerce can be seen across the street.