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462. Highway. Looking west on Baltimore Pike at Gladstone
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
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
Date: 1955-08
The address is of the Food Fair supermarket
465. Roadside. Looking west on Baltimore Pike in Springfield Township
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
Date: 1955-08
This group of stores still stands as of 2020.
506. Row, old. 500 block Millbank Rd., Stonehurst, Upper Darby Township
Address: 500 Millbank Rd., Upper Darby (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
View is of driveway or alley in rear of houses.
509. Playground. Lansdowne Grade School
Address: 401 Emerson Ave, Lansdowne (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
This is probably the East Lansdowne Elementary School.
512. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at cloverleaf, Lima.
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.
514. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Chester Heights
Date: 1955-08
Valleybrook Road is just past the Esso gas station.
515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights
Location: Chester Heights (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.
518. Detached, sample. West of Concordville on Baltimore Pike at intersection of Conchester Highway.
Date: 1955-08
Three sample houses with prices under $4,000, and no money down. Exact location unknown.
521. Roadside stand. On Baltimore Pike east of 202.
Date: 1955-08
Green Meadows Dairy Bar, offering "quality buttermilk, homemade ice cream," and "thick milk shakes". According to newspaper advertisements, this same building later housed Green Meadow Plants. It was just north (or east, as the caption reads) of…
523. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from Brandywine Bridge, Chadd's Ford.
Location: Chadds Ford (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
This lumber-yard, a former mill, later became home of the Brandywine River Museum.
