This building was last occupied by Stillwell Moving and Storage, before it was condemned and demolished during Media's Baker Street Urban Renewal project. See photo in Baker Street Book 1-392, with plan showing the address; also various advertisements in the Chester Times. The Media News, a weekly newspaper, merged with the Media Comment in 1955, and offices of the renamed "Media News Comment" moved to the County Building on Veterans Square.
Two copies. IDs on photograph: Left to right: Standing: Pete Reilly, George Noblitt, Jack Murray, Bill Alexander, Phil Carlin, Billy Diggins, Ollie Plummer, Pete Russell, Al Mathues. Kneeling, Matthew Fox.
Caption found handwritten on piece of envelope with photograph: "Entrance, Furness or Media Swimming pool, located on the site of the old Media Gas Tank, southwest of Media Railroad Station on the old Indian Trail, now Media [Station] Road."
Chief of police flanked by four officers, including one whom is African-American. Names, according to Frank Lees, in From Media's Past (45), are Hoopes, Rodenboh [probably Rodenbaugh], Chief McKniff, Sherlock, and Turner. Lees says the picture was taken September 21,1891.
Left to right: Malcolm H. Laughead, chief; Harvey F. Snyder, Sergeant; Gunnar H. Jorgensen, corporal, and Patrolmen Thomas L. Highfield, Joseph V. Gessler, Phillip Lee, Thomas J. Bruton, Alonzo H. Baker, and Harry Pearson.
Left to right: Malcolm H. Laughead, chief; Harvey F. Snyder, Sergeant; Gunnar H. Jorgensen, corporal, and Patrolmen Thomas L. Highfield, Joseph V. Gessler, Phillip Lee, Thomas J. Bruton, Alonzo H. Baker, and Harry Pearson. Print originally in Photo Folder 1395, I. Frank Lees Collection. Negative damaged, but this is still better than 8x10 print in Folder 1395.
Left to right: Malcolm H. Laughead, chief; Harvey F. Snyder, Sergeant; Gunnar H. Jorgensen, corporal, and Patrolmen Thomas L. Highfield, Joseph V. Gessler, Phillip Lee, Thomas J. Bruton, Alonzo H. Baker
