"Downtown Wakefield is illuminated for the Christmas holidays in this photo taken sometime in the early 1940s. The one-story building at the left of the photo was built in 1939, and the building on the same block, near the center of the photo, was built soon after. This latter building housed Smith's Drug Store and the Cubby Hole (Stationery). Further down the street another one-story building was built around the same time at the site of the old Walton (Odd Fellows) Building." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio. Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 1997 Photo courtesy of Bourdon Studios.
![[Aerial photo of Wakefield business district, 1930s]](https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/metadata/commonwealth-oai:3r079d76z/image_thumbnail_300.jpg)
