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On Today’s Newport Time Warp Feature! ⏳✨ Step onto Spring Street, where history lives and breathes. In this morphing photo, the present-day scene seamlessly transforms into the same view from the 1920s. Narrow streets like this are quintessential Newport, laid out centuries before automobiles roamed these cobblestone paths. Even back then, Spring Street was bustling, with cars sharing the road alongside a trolley line that ran down the right side. Remarkably, most buildings in this view have sto
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