Occupy Pike Street, circa 1915
Fed up with the puddles on Pike Street, a number of Lawrenceville, GA, citizens make their displeasure known:
Protest on Pike Street, Lawrencevile GA, 1915
At the far left, two men are dredging the puddle with a seine. In the middle, the ringleaders – Charles Mason and his son Clarence – are using the tried-and-true “firearm” method of fishing (e.g. they have shotguns). The most successful is the boy on the far right, who’s hauled up a respectable fish using watermelon as bait.
Source: Stancil, W. Dorsey. Vanishing Gwinnett. Lawrenceville, GA: Gwinnett Historical Society, 1984.
