Looking northwest at Washington Avenue. Oil company in foreground and meat market and pool hall in background. Directional sign in front of oil company says "Great White Way". Number 17202.
W.C. "Billy" Robinson was an early aviator who set an American nonstop distance flight record in 1914. He became the second officially appointed air mail carrier in the U.S. He built his own airplane & invented a rotary airplane engine. Robinson was killed in 1916 at age 31 in a plane crash while attempting to set an altitude record.
