In a message dated 1/31/2005 11:19:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
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Primary Source Media had a marvelous collection of city directories on line. 
It was possible to search across time periods and localities in one 
search.....As I recall, Google has a cache of the homepage still available. 

Yes, Leslie, I subscribed to the PSI Media directories and have written about 
them and their de-posting - as you have.  But a respondent to the question 
about a 1946 recording studio was "sure" there were mid-20th century directories 
posted on the web.  

My tally of the PSI directories does not tally 20th century  directories (and 
certainly nothing relevant to 1946) and my cache of the page defaults to 
their "no results" page:  "The web site you are trying to access was discontinued 
as of December 31st, 2001."  

Thus my own query: "If this or any subscriber is familiar with any 20th 
century city directories posted on-line, now or at any time in the past, I would be 
interested to hear  from them."     

Best,  Christopher