Back in the middle of the 20th Century you could fill up your vehicle's gas tank much more cheaply, usually with a five-dollar bill. There was no coffee or slushy machine inside the gas station office, and there were no lottery tickets for sale, but there were mechanics who could check your battery or your tires and usually they emerged from the office when you pulled in the station and pumped you gas for you. Some of those scenes are available for viewing in the Jefferson County Library's Northwest Branch's historical photograph collection, recently made available and shared on Flickr, the …

There is not a backpack or a school bus in sight in some of the school photos from earlier days in High Ridge, as seen in the collection of historical images collection of the Jefferson County Library. There also were no worries about crowded hallways in the old buildings as many of them were one-room schools. The old school photographs recently were made available by the Jefferson County Library as a way to spark interest in Jefferson County history. The photographs are being shared on Flickr, the popular photo-sharing service. The wide range of photographs offer a compelling look at how …