Frank Lees caption: This shows the big red car of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company, headed towards Upper Darby. The store on the corner was a candy store. The store on the left is Major's Plumbing Shop. Copy of original photo; source not noted
State Cut Rate Store and Snowden's are the first two buildings on the left (north) side of the street, and the First National Bank is the first building on the south side. The tall tower sits atop the old Media Borough Hall, at Jackson Street, which was demolished in 1969.
Frank Lees caption: "This view, dated about 1922, is a view looking east on State Street at South Avenue. Robinson & Crawford grocery store is on the corner, in the original store building built in Media in the early 1850s. Although Robinson and Crawford are not the original grocer on this corner, the building has been used for a store most of its existence. Today (1979) it is a restaurant. The bank building on the corner was built in 1900." Copy of original photo; source not noted
Police Station (in north section of Borough Hall) is on far right, with the portico and façade of the Media Free Library also visible on right. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Frank Lees caption: The Delaware County Court House can be seen through the trees. A mailman rides his bicycle with the mail. The trolley tracks carried the trolley from Orange and Lincoln St. to Front Street, then on to Chester. Copy of original photo; source not noted
Frank Lees caption: "A series of homes made into offices." The second pair of houses from the left were combined into one office building, with a single address: 14 W. 2nd Street.
View includes, from east to west, Media Drug Stores, Arcadia Restaurant, former Pastime Theater, State Grille Restaurant, Snowden's Hardware, and other stores beyond.
Red Ink photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This photo was entered in The John Wanamaker Exhibition of Photographs by Amateurs, February 1908. See P-11002 for a description of the pond.
This structure was located on the edge of the pond, opposite 1 Old Mill Lane in Rose Valley. The pond, fed by Vernon Run, a Ridley Creek tributary, would be to the right of the pump house, out of the picture. The pond no longer exists. See P-11005 for a photo of it.
"Red Ink" photo, series by same photographer named for red ink used for writing descriptions on reverse side of similarly-mounted images. This is possibly the lane that one ran on the Park Avenue side of the Idlewild Hotel, which is now unused and is accessed off Squirrel Lane.
