--- title: my town, 1947 style! author: tracey pooh type: post date: 2012-02-11 featured: my-town.jpg#top categories: - culture tags: - 1940s - montclair - oakland - small town comment: --- Our amazing next door neighbor, [Reenie Raschke](http://reenieimages.com/), the super talented photographer has lovingly chronicled our town in a black-and-white pictorial called "[My Town Montclair](http://montclairvillagebook.com/)". We saw her present slides and background from her book last night at our local indie bookstore. She passed around this gem of an original 60+ year old newspaper showing our downtown as it was!