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502. Transit. 69th St. Terminal, Upper Darby

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Date: 1955-08

506. Row, old. 500 block Millbank Rd., Stonehurst, Upper Darby Township

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Date: 1955-08
View is of driveway or alley in rear of houses.

509. Playground. Lansdowne Grade School

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Date: 1955-08
This is probably the East Lansdowne Elementary School.

512. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at cloverleaf, Lima.

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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.

513. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike east of Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

514. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Valleybrook Road is just past the Esso gas station.

515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.

516. Roadside. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from west of Chester Heights

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

517. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at Concordville

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Date: 1955-08
Concordville Hotel is on the right.

518. Detached, sample. West of Concordville on Baltimore Pike at intersection of Conchester Highway.

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Date: 1955-08
Three sample houses with prices under $4,000, and no money down. Exact location unknown.

520. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Concordville

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

521. Roadside stand. On Baltimore Pike east of 202.

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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…

522. Highway. Looking south on 202 just north of Baltimore Pike

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

523. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from Brandywine Bridge, Chadd's Ford.

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Date: 1955-08
This lumber-yard, a former mill, later became home of the Brandywine River Museum.

525. Open. East of 202, on Dilworthtown Rd., looking east, Thornbury Township

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

526. Detached, new. Dilworthtown and Brinton Lake roads, Thornbury Township

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Date: 1955-08

527. Shopping. Thornton

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Date: 1955-09
Sign reads: "Quaker Friendly Food Stores"

528. Detached, new. Near Thornton

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Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

532. Highland Homes. Wayne

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Date: 1955-08
These buildings, which were low-income housing, no longer stand.

533. Highway. Providence Rd. north of Sandy Bank School, Upper Providence Township.

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Date: 1955-06
Shows children crossing the road to get to the Sandy Bank School.

536. Open. On Providence Rd., south of Edgmont

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Date: 1955-06
Shows open land in Edgmont Township. Exact location uncertain.

538. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.

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Date: 1955-06

539. Shopping center. Looking east on West Chester Pike, Newtown Square.

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Date: 1955-06

540. Detached, new. Broomall, W. Ann Rd.

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Date: 1955-06
Exact location uncertain

541. Detached, new. Broomall, Sylvan Drive

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Date: 1955-06
Exact location uncertain