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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…

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.

Media Laundry, front

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Date: 1950-03-28
Centennial Book 91.

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 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.

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 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…

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.

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.

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 Borough Council and School Board with wives.

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Date: 1950-03-10
This dinner, at the Hotel Media, was held on the exact anniversary of Media's founding. According to the Chester Times (March 11, 1950), councilmen present were William H. West, J. Orval Mancill, Paul L. Clark, Walter M. Strine, Ambrose L. Smedley,…

Media Borough Council and School Board with wives.

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Date: 1950-03-10
This dinner, at the Hotel Media, was held on the exact anniversary of Media's founding. According to the Chester Times (March 11, 1950), councilmen present were William H. West, J. Orval Mancill, Paul L. Clark, Walter M. Strine, Ambrose L. Smedley,…

Pennsylvania National Guard Armory

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Date: 1950-03-06
Centennial Book 32.

Media Elementary School, looking west from Edgmont Street near State Street.

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Date: 1950-03-06
The elementary school occupied the eastern part of the school complex, with the high school in the western section. Centennial Book 63.

Lemon Street School

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Date: 1950-03-06
This was the first school built after Media was formed in 1850. It became a private residence, and still stands as of 2020. Centennial Book 62.

Sun Ray Drug Company

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Date: 1950-03-06
Anna Mary Walters School once occupied this site, and later, the Media Drug store. Frank Lees, in his photo caption on the print founded in Photo Folder 1345, called this the Haldeman Building.

Colonial Apartments

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Date: 1950-03-06
This originally was called the Chestnut Grove Hotel, later renamed the Colonial Hotel. Media Real Estate Company's colonial-named apartment houses now (2020) stand on this location. Print originally in Folder 1344.