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S. M. Wilson Chrysler-Plymouth Agency

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Date: 1950-03-31
See also ZM-2801 for a photograph of Sidney M. Wilson, owner of this business.

Media News building

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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…

Delaware County Institute of Science

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Date: 1950-03-29
Centennial Book 72.

Media Laundry, front

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Date: 1950-03-28
Centennial Book 91.

Office and Apartment Building, Media, Pa., for Mr. Philip Green. G. Harold Murphy AIA & Associates, Architects, Philadelphia, Pa.

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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.

Crosby L. Smith (left) presenting "Media's Man of the Year" award, from the Media Businessmen's Association, to Lane A. Davis

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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.

Media Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). Street numbering project

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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…

Cutting ice for storage out of Palmer's Dam

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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…

Media Coal & Ice Company, trucks lined up in front of plant.

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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.

Whitaker-Barrett Oldsmobile

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Date: no date
Garage and Oldsmobile automobile agency

Whitaker-Barrett Oldsmobile

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Date: 1950-03-06
Garage and Oldsmobile automobile agency

Brooke Hall Apartments

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Date: 1950-03-29
This building had previous uses as a hotel, and earlier, as the Eastman Seminary for Girls.

Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine

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Date: 1950-03-12
Left to right: William (Billy) Hannum, unknown, Richard (Dick) Lavery

Media Fire Company. New Seagrave fire engine

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Date: 1950-03-12
William (Billy) Hannum behind the wheel, as Walter Rhodes looks on.