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  • Collection: I. Frank Lees Photograph Collection
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168. Detached, old. 100 block Walter Ave., Darby Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18086.jpg
Date: 1954-07
Address uncertain

173. 300 block of unnamed street, Darby Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18087.jpg
Date: 1954-07
Label illegible

286. Drexelbrook

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18088.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Address is approximate

287. Drexelbrook

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18089.jpg
Date: 1950-1955
Address is approximate

459. Highway. In East Lansdowne, looking east on Baltimore Pike

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18090.jpg
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.

460. Delaware County Highway. Baltimore Pike, at Lansdowne Ave., looking east

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18091.jpg
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.

461. Shopping Center. On Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18092.jpg
Date: 1955-08

462. Highway. Looking west on Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18093.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Looking across Darby Creek into Clifton Heights. The Family Drive-In (movie theater) is on the right, playing "Three Coins in the Fountain."

463. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Clifton Heights

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18094.jpg
Date: 1955-08
The firehouse of the Clifton Heights Fire Protective Association No. 1 is on the left.

464. Supermarket. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18095.jpg
Date: 1955-08
The address is of the Food Fair supermarket

465. Roadside. Looking west on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18096.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Stony Creek East Shopping Center is on the left. The address is for this group of stores.

466. Shopping center. Looking east on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18097.jpg
Date: 1955-08
This group of stores still stands as of 2020.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18098.jpg
Date: 1955-08

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18099.jpg
Date: 1955-08
View toward 69th Street Terminal.

501. Shopping center. Looking west on Market St. from about Kent Road, Upper Darby

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18100.jpg
Date: 1955-08
69th Street Terminal is on right.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18101.jpg
Date: 1955-08

506. Row, old. 500 block Millbank Rd., Stonehurst, Upper Darby Township

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18102.jpg
Date: 1955-08
View is of driveway or alley in rear of houses.

509. Playground. Lansdowne Grade School

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18103.jpg
Date: 1955-08
This is probably the East Lansdowne Elementary School.

512. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at cloverleaf, Lima.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18104.jpg
Date: 1955-08
The sign for the Clover Leaf Inn is on the right. The cloverleaf connects Route 352 (carried on the bridge) with Route 1.

513. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike east of Chester Heights

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18105.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

514. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Chester Heights

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18106.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Valleybrook Road is just past the Esso gas station.

515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18107.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.

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

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18108.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

517. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Concordville

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18109.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Concordville Hotel is on the right.

518. Detached, sample. West of Concordville on Baltimore Pike at intersection of Conchester Highway.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18110.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Three sample houses with prices under $4,000, and no money down. Exact location unknown.