Postcard showing the interurban traveling along West Main Street (now West Michigan Avenue). Note McCamly Park and the spire of the Seventh Day Adventist "Dime Tabernacle" on the right. Interurbans were electric light railroads which connected all of the major cities in Michigan from the 1890's into the 1930's when they were phased out due to increased use of automobiles. In the countryside the electric cars were powered by a third rail system and in the cities generally by overhead electric wires. Caption on front: MAIN ST. WEST BATTLE CREEK MICH. 41. Written on back: We are having a nice time in Battle Creek. Think we will go out to Gull Lake this afternoon. Cora Sent on: July 23, 1909 Sent to: Miss Lillie Birt, W LaFayette, Ind.