Small Business

Dublin Core

Identifier

GA.BH.7.16b

Title

Small Business

Description

Binder 16b

Contributor

Harold and Carol Mitchener, compiled and organized the photographs into the binders and identified most of the items.

Rights

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Collection Items

[Fishing along the Delaware River below the Mill Street Wharf]
Primarily caught in this section were shad fish, which laid eggs in the spring. Richard Russel, also known as “Dick Shad,” made a business of buying and selling shad. Russel was a former slave who made a good living by not only selling fish and…

[Canal Street between Beaver and Washington Streets]

[Store at the corner of Mill and Radcliffe Streets, 101 and 103, opposite the King George Inn]
A house was built in the federal style by John Bessonett at this site circa 1805. He was the proprietor of the King George Hotel across the street. General Lafayette was entertained at this building September 8, 1824. The store front was added to the…

[King George II Inn bar section, circa late 1880s]

[Delivery cart, stream likely part of Adam’s Hollow Creek]
Man unidentified.

[House at the corner of Dorrance Street and Cedar Street, owned by Ellis Comfort]
His son Ellis “Skeetz” Comfort then became owner of the house. Ellis Comfort operated a livery stable behind the house and rented carriages for special occasions, such as funerals. Skeetz had an antique repair shop behind the house until it…

[Cesare’s Restaurant, 1407 Radcliffe Street]
Originally called Cesare’s Tomato Pies. Proprietors were John Petolillo and Louis J. Silvestro. Donald Petolillo, son of John Petolillo, is the owner as of 2003.

[Bristol Diner, believed to be Jasper “Tony” Salerno]

[Bowen’s Restaurant, Farragut Avenue near Green Lane]
Later became the O’Boyles Ice Cream building, opposite of the Wawa Store and American Hose Hook and Ladder Fire Co. (as of 1998).

"Penn Realty Co." [advertisement]
Owner Samuel U. Gratz. Real estate appraisers, as well as sales and rentals of real estate and insurance. 443 Mill Street, Bristol, PA
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