Photos from the Past: How Pensacola Looked 100 Years Ago

Photos from the Past: How Pensacola Looked 100 Years Ago

Reading Time: 7 minutesThere is a particular kind of silence inside old photographs. It is not the silence of emptiness, but the hush that arrives when time pauses and the ordinary becomes historic. A century ago, Pensacola looked familiar in outline and unfamiliar in detail. The bay was still the city’s constant, the streets still funneled people toward work and errands and church and the waterfront, but the texture of daily life was different:…