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545. Shopping. On West Chester Pike, Broomall.

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Date: 1955-06
Broomall Barber Shop and Tony's Shoe Store. Datestone in building reads: Isaac Lawrence, 1817. According to the 1909 Mueller Atlas, Plate 30, this building stood on the northeast corner of the intersection of West Chester Pike and Sproul Road. See…

459. Highway. In East Lansdowne, looking east on Baltimore Pike

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Date: 1955-08
View is from railroad bridge that once crossed Baltimore Avenue just west of Hirst Avenue. Lansdowne Ice & Coal Company, on the right side of the photo, was at 500 E. Baltimore Avenue, opposite Melrose Avenue. Address is approximate.

460. Delaware County Highway. Baltimore Pike, at Lansdowne Ave., looking east

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Date: 1955-08
Looking east on Baltimore Avenue from Lansdowne Avenue. Of all the buildings on the left side of the photo, only the church is still standing.

461. Shopping Center. On Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

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Date: 1955-08

462. Highway. Looking west on Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

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Date: 1955-08
Looking across Darby Creek into Clifton Heights. The Family Drive-In (movie theater) is on the right, playing "Three Coins in the Fountain."

463. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Clifton Heights

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Date: 1955-08
The firehouse of the Clifton Heights Fire Protective Association No. 1 is on the left.

464. Supermarket. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township

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Date: 1955-08
The address is of the Food Fair supermarket

465. Roadside. Looking west on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township

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Date: 1955-08
Stony Creek East Shopping Center is on the left. The address is for this group of stores.

500. Shopping Center. Looking south on 69th St., Upper Darby

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Date: 1955-08
View toward 69th Street Terminal.

501. Shopping center. Looking west on Market St. from about Kent Road, Upper Darby

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Date: 1955-08
69th Street Terminal is on right.

502. Transit. 69th St. Terminal, Upper Darby

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Date: 1955-08

513. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike east of Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

522. Highway. Looking south on 202 just north of Baltimore Pike

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

548. Main Street, Darby

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Date: 1955-08
Looking from above Powell Road (on right) toward 9th St.

550. Highway. MacDade Boulevard, from Chester Pike, Darby.

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Date: 1955-08
The building that earlier housed the car dealership on the right still stands (as of 2020).

586. Chester municipal lot, near P.R.R., west of business district

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Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Sign reads: "Shop in Chester. 10 cents for 3 hours." Exact location uncertain.

587. Railroad. Pennsylvania railroad at Market St., Chester

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Date: 1955-08
Location based on newspaper research for The Hat Corner.

588. Shopping. 600 block Edgmont Ave., Chester

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Date: 1955-08

466. Shopping center. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township

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Date: 1955-08
This group of stores still stands as of 2020.

527. Shopping. Thornton

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Date: 1955-09
Sign reads: "Quaker Friendly Food Stores"

654. Street. Harper and State Rd., Drexel Hill. Slight jog, faulty planning.

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Date: 1955-09
This jog still exists as of this writing, in 2020.

1553. Looking northeast on Baltimore Pike, towards Media, from west of Elwyn Road.

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Date: 1956-1957
Scrogie is visible behind the trees.

1554. Cars of skaters, Ridley Creek at Baltimore Pike.

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Date: 1956-1957
North of Baltimore Pike near pond behind dam. Address is for the small Middletown Township Memorial Park now (in 2020) at this location.

1555. Cars of skaters, Ridley Creek at Baltimore Pike

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Date: 1956-1957
North of Baltimore Pike near pond behind dam. Address is for the small Middletown Township Memorial Park now (in 2020) at this location.

4th of July on Media Athletic Field (now Barrall Field)

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Date: 1960 (circa)
Truck mounted with loudspeakers, from Charles A. Higgins Electrical Contractors, shown in foreground