Cornwall Icons – Pitt Street

In every era, our city has had streets, structures and other features that spoke loudly:  “this is Cornwall.”

Cornwall’s downtown, and more specifically, Pitt Street, was long thought of as an identifiable feature, symbolic of our community.

Both by day and by night,

and in every era, the sights, sounds and smells along Pitt Street were an attraction, a place where Cornwallites were proud to bring their out of town guests.

Indeed, this was so much the case that a variety of souvenirs were created to celebrate Cornwall’s “Main Street.”

 

 

Some of the souvenirs even had a practical side.

Each of these Cornwall souvenirs and others are on exhibit at your Cornwall Community Museum.

Perhaps you have your own favourite memories of Pitt Street, be it pre, post or pedestrian mall era.

In Part 2 of this series at this LINK we look at another iconic Cornwall landmark, Cornwall’s Neo-Gothic post office.