85K a small city? If we had 8,000 I would be surprised. LOL!
8000? Bet you had stop lights too. Me - 600, still had original yellow stop signs, no stop lights.
Topped out at one point in the early 1900s at around 1500. Had a theater then till the fire in the 20s. Never really came back from that.
But you had to keep your eyes open when driving the highway through town...mainly cause it was an S-shape and you didn’t want to end up in the Jones house before heading out of town.