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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Circa 1940: 1800 BLOCK OF SOUTH BROAD STREET


This original post of this photo has been removed and re-formatted. I enlarged it, lightened the darkened areas and darkened the lightened areas and brought the overall view into clearer focus. This is brings out the best in this nostalgic look at this popular "go to" place of the 40's and 50's.

Didn't we get our Hamilton High School class rings at Heitz Jewelers? My age has finally caught up with me. I will need Jim Colello or another Broad Street Park area old timer to tell me whether I am correct in identifying the street corner on the right as Sewell Avenue. My memory failed me on this photo. I always thought that Heitz Jewelry story was on the south side of South Broad Street. Comments, Please, so I can set the record to historic accuracy. Regardless of the historical accuracy, this is a beautiful photo of the road I have traveled countless times.


Tom, this photograph is wonderful. Thank you for posting. The street to the right with the fire hydrant in the foreground is Sewell Avenue. The street center background below the billboard is Lily Street. The corner occupied by Heitz Jewelers, Orlando Tailoring and Ely Radios is occupied by the building once occupied by Bob Lang Appliances and today is occupied by The Salvation Army Thrft Store and the studios of WIMG AM 1300. The three men are standing in front of Sam's Liquor Store. The image of the Park 5c & 10c further down is priceless. Jim C.

Lee Belardino said...

Tommy
We got our rings from Heitzs jewelers. I still got mine. I lived one street behind Broad on Genesee. Heitz was across the street from Tiltons bakery. Asterino's liquor store was on the corner Holy Angels was down the street.Freidman and Fromkins was our drug store down from Tiltons bakery.Broad street park was my neighborhood from Rowan to Hamilton.Great place to grow up.

So glad to see this photo! My uncle Dr. John Dzienis and my aunt Vera lived on this corner in the 1940's. They bought the big white Victorian house because it was the perfect location for a Doctors office right next to the bus stop and on the corner of a main street (Broad and Sewell)
When I was a toddler we stayed here briefly until my parents bought their home in Broad Street Park. I remember watching the sign on the jewelry store blink on and off at night. There was a Barber shop and a dress shop across Broad Street which my parents patronized. The other corner of Broad and Sewell had a grocery store where I got my cherry ice pops! Near Tiltons bakery there was a doll repair shop and a Drug store at Harrison St.

Lyric

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Anonymous said...

Tom, this photograph is wonderful. Thank you for posting. The street to the right with the fire hydrant in the foreground is Sewell Avenue. The street center background below the billboard is Lily Street. The corner occupied by Heitz Jewelers, Orlando Tailoring and Ely Radios is occupied by the building once occupied by Bob Lang Appliances and today is occupied by The Salvation Army Thrft Store and the studios of WIMG AM 1300. The three men are standing in front of Sam's Liquor Store. The image of the Park 5c & 10c further down is priceless. Jim C.

Lee Belardino said...

Tommy
We got our rings from Heitzs jewelers. I still got mine. I lived one street behind Broad on Genesee. Heitz was across the street from Tiltons bakery. Asterino's liquor store was on the corner Holy Angels was down the street.Freidman and Fromkins was our drug store down from Tiltons bakery.Broad street park was my neighborhood from Rowan to Hamilton.Great place to grow up.

Anonymous said...

So glad to see this photo! My uncle Dr. John Dzienis and my aunt Vera lived on this corner in the 1940's. They bought the big white Victorian house because it was the perfect location for a Doctors office right next to the bus stop and on the corner of a main street (Broad and Sewell)
When I was a toddler we stayed here briefly until my parents bought their home in Broad Street Park. I remember watching the sign on the jewelry store blink on and off at night. There was a Barber shop and a dress shop across Broad Street which my parents patronized. The other corner of Broad and Sewell had a grocery store where I got my cherry ice pops! Near Tiltons bakery there was a doll repair shop and a Drug store at Harrison St.

Lyric

Mack said...

Knew it instantly. My Dads office was on this block of south broad street before he moved down the street still on broad past liberty into the city:)

Bob Stockton said...

The photo looks southward.

Just a bit further north from the photo was the Firestone store and Andy Auletta's barber shop. As a kid I had my haircut in Andy's shop for a quarter.
A first generation Italian-American, Andy always had Bernie Kosnowski's polka show tuned on the shop radio.
I will never forget that shop and Andy.
I was born that year and lived two blocks south from the photo at 2049, directly next to the old International Harvester truck garage.
Who remembers the old Premium gas station on the corners of South Broad and Harrison and the vacant lot next to the Harris Department store?