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Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 14 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Kassab's Gift Shop [or Mart, as the sign in the window says] "has an old organ, spyglass, and a testament on display worth spending a few minutes examining, as well as neckwear of former days.” (Chester Times, June 6, 1950, page 17)
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 31 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Sherwin-Williams Paint Store. The display includes paintings by various artists, including Sarah Rouch Cummings, an artist and teacher who lived in Media.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 101 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
State Cut Rate Drug, which was on the northeast corner of State Street and South Avenue (now Veterans Square). The display features antique clocks and other items.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Date: 1950-06-09
Donaldson Dress Shop, on the northwest corner of State Street and South Avenue (now Veterans Square). “At State Street and South Avenue, the site of the cornfield where the first lots of Media were sold at $3 a front foot, Donaldsons have elegant…
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 217 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Griffith's Barber Shop, with a display of lotion bottles and shaving mugs, each with the name of its owner, including C. W. Pierson, Mingin, Clement F. Allen, Habbersett, and other local people. This was formerly Schuchardt's Barber Shop and later…
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 305 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
B. Frank Berry Plumbing. Sign in window reads "Articles in this window from 75 to 100 years old. Mrs. Henry Pierson, Wallingford, Pa." Mostly vintage clothing. Negative envelope reads: "B. Frank Berry. State St. north [sic: west] of Orange. North…
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06-09
Unknown grocery store. This may be same storefront as in ZM-3541
Media Centennial Celebration. Industrial and Commercial Exhibit at Armory
Address: 12 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-06
Raymond J. Dawson, 110 W. State Street, featuring General Electric appliances.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 13 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-06
W. W. Morhard Co. “Robert G. Burk 3d, originally from Virginia, has a display of objects long in his family's possession in Morhard's window. One interesting item is a gavel Burk says is the authentic symbol of authority used at the secession meeting…
Media Centennial Celebration
Address: 115 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-11
Snowden's male employees sport beards and clothing of the last century to honor the spirt of the event. Walter (Wally) LaLonde on a ladder in the store, waiting on a customer.
Media Centennial Celebration
Address: 115 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-11
Snowden's male employees sport beards and clothing of the last century to honor the spirt of the event. Left to right: Mrs. Yarnall with Ralph Robinson and Walter (Wally) LaLonde in front of the store, looking at potted plants for sale.
Media Centennial Celebration
Address: 115 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-11
Snowden's male employees sport beards and clothing of the last century to honor the spirt of the event. Left to right: Ralph Robinson, Mrs. Yarnall, Phil Walsh, and Walter (Wally) LaLonde in front of the store, looking at potted plants for sale. The…
Media Centennial Celebration
Address: 115 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-05-11
Snowden's male employees sport beards and clothing of the last century to honor the spirt of the event. From left to right: Unknown woman, Phil Walsh, Walter (Wally) LaLonde, and Ralph Robinson. This photograph appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer…
Media Furniture Store
Address: 104 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
"Airbrushed copy negative. Made for owner Sadir Elias's ad" in the Centennial Book 106. This building still (2020 ) stands, occupying the front and side yard of a much older Victorian twin that looms behind it.
Sherwin-Williams Paint Store
Address: 31 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-02-21
Caption on negative envelope: "Mr. Cheney and helper [no indication which is which] making last minute preparations before opening."
Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Clean Up on State Street.
Date: 1948-05-15
Inside School Pharmacy, refreshments after the clean up. Joseph Gershenfeld, owner, behind the counter. Bud Arters may be the man in the foreground.
