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521. Roadside stand. On Baltimore Pike east of 202.
Date: 1955-08
Green Meadows Dairy Bar, offering "quality buttermilk, homemade ice cream," and "thick milk shakes". According to newspaper advertisements, this same building later housed Green Meadow Plants. It was just north (or east, as the caption reads) of…
515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights
Location: Chester Heights (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.
466. Shopping center. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township
Date: 1955-08
This group of stores still stands as of 2020.
465. Roadside. Looking west on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township
Date: 1955-08
Stony Creek East Shopping Center is on the left. The address is for this group of stores.
464. Supermarket. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township
Date: 1955-08
The address is of the Food Fair supermarket
463. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Clifton Heights
Date: 1955-08
The firehouse of the Clifton Heights Fire Protective Association No. 1 is on the left.
460. Delaware County Highway. Baltimore Pike, at Lansdowne Ave., looking east
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.
459. Highway. In East Lansdowne, looking east on Baltimore Pike
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.
Edgemont Post Office, in store of “E. G. Peirce, dealer in general merchandise.”
Location: 5013 West Chester Pike, Edgmont (Pa.)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Caption on reverse reads: "Edgemont, Pa. on West Chester Pike. Car line ran from 69th St. to West Chester along West Chester Pike." Donated by Mrs. Hoyt (nee Sills), April 11, 1982. This building, which is no longer standing, was on the south side of…
Unveiling of Soldier’s Monument in Market Square, Chester, Pa.
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1918-11
Four photographs, P-14003A through D. See Chester Times, November 9 and 11, 1918, for articles describing this event. Over 5,000 people crowded the square to witness the unveiling. The temporary shaft, erected by the Chester Rotary Club and inscribed…
Unveiling of Soldier’s Monument in Market Square, Chester, Pa.
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1918-11
Four photographs, P-14003A through D. See Chester Times, November 9 and 11, 1918, for articles describing this event. Over 5,000 people crowded the square to witness the unveiling. The temporary shaft, erected by the Chester Rotary Club and inscribed…
Unveiling of Soldier’s Monument in Market Square, Chester, Pa.
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1918-11
Four photographs, P-14003A through D. See Chester Times, November 9 and 11, 1918, for articles describing this event. Over 5,000 people crowded the square to witness the unveiling. The temporary shaft, erected by the Chester Rotary Club and inscribed…
Unveiling of Soldier’s Monument in Market Square, Chester, Pa.
Location: Chester (Pa.)
Date: 1918-11
Four photographs, P-14003A through D. See Chester Times, November 9 and 11, 1918, for articles describing this event. Over 5,000 people crowded the square to witness the unveiling. The temporary shaft, erected by the Chester Rotary Club and inscribed…
Bonsall Bros. Hardware and Groceries, and Broomall Post Office
Date: 1930 (circa)
Building erected 1817. Torn down 1965 or after. Gasoline pump also shown. 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. Address is approximate
Media, Pa. post office, under construction
Address: 1 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1918-06-01
View looking southwest from corner of Jasper and Jackson Street, showing completed exterior
Media, Pa. post office, under construction
Address: 1 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1917-10-01
View looking south across construction site toward State Street. Media Ledger building is on left, at the corner of Jackson Street.