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536. Open. On Providence Rd., south of Edgmont
Location: Edgmont Twp. (Pa.)
Date: 1955-06
Shows open land in Edgmont Township. Exact location uncertain.
533. Highway. Providence Rd. north of Sandy Bank School, Upper Providence Township.
Date: 1955-06
Shows children crossing the road to get to the Sandy Bank School.
532. Highland Homes. Wayne
Location: Highland Avenue, Wayne (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
These buildings, which were low-income housing, no longer stand.
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.
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…
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.
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.
514. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Chester Heights
Date: 1955-08
Valleybrook Road is just past the Esso gas station.
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.
509. Playground. Lansdowne Grade School
Address: 401 Emerson Ave, Lansdowne (Pa.)
Date: 1955-08
This is probably the East Lansdowne Elementary School.
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.
