Two-way traffic on East Main Street in downtown Lexington, looking east, in May 1956. The building at upper right is the Lafayette Hotel. It closed in 1963, and the building now houses the offices of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Walnut Street, now called Martin Luther King Boulevard, runs next to the Lafayette Hotel. The parking lot on the right side is where the Fayette County clerk’s office sits. Where the Chase Bank building sits now, at left beyond Walnut Street, was occupied by Bradley’s Drugs, among other businesses. Main Street became one way in 1971. Herald-Leader Staff Photo