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Lynn baking a cake
Address: Not known
Date: 1950-04-14
No identification is provided on the negative envelope, but this may be the photographer's daughter, Lynn Zimmerman
Mr. Wilson, owner of Wilson's Garage
Address: 217 W. Baltimore Ave, Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-04-14
This is probably Sidney M. Wilson, who also ran S. M. Wilson's Chrysler-Plymouth agency at the garage. See ad in Centennial Book, page 96. See also ZM-2750 for the outside of the building.
Jessup & Pell, Studebaker agency and garage
Date: 1950-04-14
AAA tow truck and gasoline pumps in front. The business was on the northwest corner at Front and Orange streets, "opposite the Court House," according to company's ad in the Centennial Book 82.
Jessup & Pell, Studebaker agency and garage
Date: 1950-04-14
The business was on the northwest corner at Front and Orange streets, "opposite the Court House," according to company's ad in the Centennial Book 82.
Leonard Pell, of Jessup & Pell, Studebaker agency and garage
Date: 1950-04-14
On the wall are testimonials from two local sports figures: Lew Jenkins, former lightweight boxing champion, and Jack Ferrante, a receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1944-1950, who later coached the football Team at Monsignor Bonner High School…
Harry Groll and George Paris of Roberts Jewelers holding silver before placing it on the shelf.
Address: 205 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-04-11
The store opened to the public on April 14, 1950. See advertisement in Chester Times, April 13, 1950, page 4.
New ACME store, front view
Address: 315-323 W. State St., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950-04-17
Newer buildings occupy the location where this building once stood.
Media Furniture Store
Address: 104 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
"Airbrushed copy negative. Made for owner Sadir Elias's ad" in the Centennial Book 106. This building still (2020 ) stands, occupying the front and side yard of a much older Victorian twin that looms behind it.
Hotel Media
Address: 402 W. Baltimore Ave., Media (Pa.)
Date: 1950
Airbrushed copy negative. Made for Hotel Media's advertising in Centennial Book 110. This building sat on the southwest corner of Baltimore Ave and Lemon St. Hill's Seafood now (2020) occupies the site.
