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

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Date: 1955-08
Stony Creek East Shopping Center is on the left. The address is for this group of stores.

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

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Date: 1955-08
The firehouse of the Clifton Heights Fire Protective Association No. 1 is on the left.

462. Highway. Looking west on Baltimore Pike at Gladstone

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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."

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

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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.

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

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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.

287. Drexelbrook

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Date: 1950-1955
Address is approximate

286. Drexelbrook

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Date: 1950-1955
Address is approximate

165. 900 block Burton St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Address uncertain

162. 630 Felton St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-06
Address uncertain. On Google Maps, this address comes up at the dead end of the street near Harris Elementary School in Collingdale, Pa.

161. 600 block Felton St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-06
This vacant land, probably in Collingdale, Pa., may have become either Collingdale Park or Harris Elementary School.

160. 1000 block Jackson St., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
May be in Collingdale, Pa.

158. Corner Linden St. and Calcon Hook Road, Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Linden Avenue and Calcon Hook Road no longer intersect.

155. Garden land. 1000 block Linden Ave., Darby Township

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Date: 1954-07
Exact location uncertain

Unknown house, possibly Darby or Chester

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Date: 1954-07
No label on slide. Possibly 800 block of W. Mary St., Chester

144. Plumbing. Upland Terrace off Concord Road, Chester Township

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Date: 1954-06
Shows an outhouse. Location uncertain