Reply to "Infrastructure troubles in Cumberland,MD."

Here are 2 more views of the doomed building, the last business (a 77 yr. old barber) left last year. The liquor store had originally opened in 1933 at the close of Prohibition, it shut down several years ago. The hotel was popular with salesmen and RR employees through the 1950s, but had gradually declined, since 1996 the current owners apparently lost interest. I don't recall the liquor store as being very prosperous during the time I delivered there for a local beer distributor from 1979-1984.
When I did a research project on the Cumberland Fire Dept., one anecdote concerned a horse-drawn aerial ladder fire truck being driven into the front window of the hotel to avoid hitting an oncoming train at the crossing. This resulted in the death of a fire horse named "Jerry", and occurred in May,1906.