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Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 104 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-08
Media Theatre Beauty Shop. The display includes several antique dolls.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 4 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-08
Ferguson's Hardware was successor to Henderson's Hardware at the same location.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 9 E. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Greene's Toy Store displays “an interesting collection if dolls of the 1850, 1860, 1880, and 1890 periods, the property of Mrs. F. C. Hamilton.” (Chester Times, June 6, 1950, page 17)
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-06-09
American Red Cross items in a location not noted. This may be in a grocery store, based on the Corn Flakes poster on the wall behind the display.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: Not Known
Date: 1950-06-09
American Red Cross items in a location not noted. This may be in a grocery store, based on the Corn Flakes poster on the wall behind the display.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 214 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Hibberd Bros. real estate "has a glass collection of Mrs. Stanley T. Hibberd on display, and an original watercolor painted by Media’s renowned artist of a former day, Charles L. Fussell. It was painted in 1900, and is called ‘Along Ridley Creek.’ "…
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 14 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Kassab's Gift Shop [or Mart, as the sign in the window says] "has an old organ, spyglass, and a testament on display worth spending a few minutes examining, as well as neckwear of former days.” (Chester Times, June 6, 1950, page 17)
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-06-09
Unknown grocery store. This may be same storefront as in ZM-3541
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Date: 1950-06-09
Sun Ray Drug Store was on the northwest corner of State Street and Olive Street. Signs in display identify cathedral chairs, an Indian shawl, and other items, all 100 years old.
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 6 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
6 W. State Street. Newspaper search identified this as Lottig Cleaners, and the display also matches this description: “The collection of old furniture and chinawear in Lottig’s window was supplied by Mr., and Mrs. John Knox Wood.” (Chester Times,…
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 15-19 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
F. W. Woolworth Company. "Woolworth's five and ten has tables and kitchen wear, trivets, bone handled knives and forks, and a washbowl and table." (Chester Times, June 6, 1950, page 17)
Media Centennial Celebration. Storefront historical displays
Address: 14 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-06-09
Kassab's Gift Shop [or Mart, as the sign in the window says] "has an old organ, spyglass, and a testament on display worth spending a few minutes examining, as well as neckwear of former days.” (Chester Times, June 6, 1950, page 17)