"This is Main Street as views from Sixth Street sometime around 1940. Today, this view would approximately be looking out from the new Ford Center toward the river. The old Lahr-Bacon Department Store on the corner [527 Main St.] had been remodeled as a Woolworth's. Other key buildings in this image include Montogomery Ward (the white building next to Woolworth's [517-519 Main St, built circa 1880 and remodeled for Montgomery Ward in 1933], Hughes Department Store [508-514 Main St., opened 1911/ became Penney's in 1956/1981 Penney's left/2006 lofts], and American Trust & Savings Company [right front, 524-530 Main St., aka Indiana Bank, aka American Trust Building/built 1904/top 2 floors added 1913/1931 Depression ended bank]. Aside from the Woolworth Building, which burn down around 1990, much of this scene is still intact."(Engler, Joe. Evansville. (Postcard History Series) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2012, p. 77) Also in this illustration, back left--Evansville's first skyscraper, the 1916 Citizens National Bank building, aka Southern Securities Building, aka Hilliard Lyons building, at 329-331 Main St. The bank moved out in 1959, and today the building houses offices. On the right, from the front back, are Harding and Miller Music Co. at 518-520 Main St., aka John M. Geupel Commercial Block. The building was built in 1891 with a 1940 remodel; Harding and Miller opened in 1929. The building currently house a restaurant. Next is the Hotel Lincoln at 8 NW 5th St., formerly 213 Upper 5th St. / 424-8 Main St. It was built circa 1900, expanded in 1916, and was razed in 1967. Finally is the Old National Bank building at 420 Main St. The bank, which dates back to 1834, moved into this building in 1916 and added 3 stories in 1927. It moved next door in 1970 and this building was razed.