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Media Borough Council and School Board with wives.
Address: 402 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-03-10
This dinner, at the Hotel Media, was held on the exact anniversary of Media's founding. According to the Chester Times (March 11, 1950), councilmen present were William H. West, J. Orval Mancill, Paul L. Clark, Walter M. Strine, Ambrose L. Smedley,…
Media Borough Council and School Board with wives.
Address: 402 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-03-10
This dinner, at the Hotel Media, was held on the exact anniversary of Media's founding. According to the Chester Times (March 11, 1950), councilmen present were William H. West, J. Orval Mancill, Paul L. Clark, Walter M. Strine, Ambrose L. Smedley,…
Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine
Date: 1950-03-12
William (Billy) Hannum behind the wheel, as Walter Rhodes looks on.
Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine
Date: 1950-03-12
William (Billy) Hannum behind the wheel, as Walter Rhodes looks on.
Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine
Date: 1950-03-12
Left to right: William (Billy) Hannum, unknown, Richard (Dick) Lavery
Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Street numbering project
Address: 332 W. 2nd St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-03-18
Caption from Chester Times, March 30, 1950, page 5: "Media Jaycees at Work: Burgess J. Fred Schultz [with paintbrush] stencils first house number in Media Junior Chamber of Commerce curb stenciling project, one of the Jaycees' civic improvement…
Media Coal & Ice Company, trucks lined up in front of plant.
Address: 39.912947, -75.393222
Date: 1950-03-19
Address is given in newspaper advertisements as "South Ave and the Pennsylvania Railroad." The business was located east of Orange Street and north of South Avenue. "Made for Mr. Michener, used for advertisement." Centennial Book 85.
Cutting ice for storage out of Palmer's Dam
Address: 39.917032, -75.404272
Date: 1950-03-19
In the old vernacular, a pond and a dam were synonymous. Palmer's Dam was located on Ridley Creek just north of Baltimore Pike, upstream of the Media Water Works. Copy of original photo; source not noted. For Media Coal & Ice Company ad in Centennial…
Crosby L. Smith (left) presenting "Media's Man of the Year" award, from the Media Businessmen's Association, to Lane A. Davis
Date: 1950-03-27
According to a story in the Chester Times, March 28, 1950, page 10, the event was held at the Media Inn.
Office and Apartment Building, Media, Pa., for Mr. Philip Green. G. Harold Murphy AIA & Associates, Architects, Philadelphia, Pa.
Address: 2 Veterans Sq., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-03-28
Photograph of architectural rendering. Centennial Book 86. This building was planned to be on the southwest corner of Front Street and South Avenue (now Veterans Square), but it was never built.
Brooke Hall Apartments
Date: 1950-03-29
This building had previous uses as a hotel, and earlier, as the Eastman Seminary for Girls.
Media News building
Address: 121 S. Orange St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-03-29
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…
S. M. Wilson Chrysler-Plymouth Agency
Address: 217 W. Baltimore Ave, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-03-31
See also ZM-2801 for a photograph of Sidney M. Wilson, owner of this business.
