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539. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.

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Date: 1955-06

538. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.

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Date: 1955-06

527. Shopping. Thornton

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

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

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

521. Roadside stand. On Baltimore Pike east of 202.

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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…

520. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Concordville

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

517. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Concordville

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Date: 1955-08
Concordville Hotel is on the right.

516. Roadside. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from west of Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.

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

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Date: 1955-08

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

461. Shopping Center. On Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

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Date: 1955-08

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.

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.

119. Drexelbrook Shopping Center

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Date: 1954-07
Address is approximate

Edgemont Post Office, in store of “E. G. Peirce, dealer in general merchandise.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14003B.jpg
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.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-14003A.jpg
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…