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[Bristol Elks Flag Day celebration at the Lions Gazebo on the river front]
From left to right: District Judge Frank Peranteau, William Pezza (representing PA State Assemblyman Thomas Corrigan), Elks Exalted Ruler Patricia Long, Senator Tommy Tomlinson, Mayor Joseph Saxton. -
[Bristol Elks]
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[Bristol Fire Company No. 1 on the corner of Wood Street and Market Street]
Friend’s Meeting House (1711) across the street with closed white shutters. [Photo was likely taken in 1926 when William Doron donated his car to the company. Franklin Gilkenson is likely the chief in the white hat. The other man is unidentified. The stable was added in 1886 with an arched door to match the other two doors. When this photo was taken the arch had been removed.] This information was supplied by Jerome Mead of Fire Company No. 1 in 2000. -
[Bristol Fire Company No. 1 steamer engine]
Archive contains three copies of this photograph. One copy reads on the back: "Lewis Loechner on right of picture."
Other copy reads: "Chas. E. Scott--in rear. Old cashier at Farmers Bank. Driver worked for John Tynne."
Man on left unidentified. -
[Bristol Fire Company No. 1 truck and members, Walter Moore in driver's seat]
Bristol Fire Company No. 1 was founded 1857 located on Wood Street at Market Street. It was the first fire company in Bristol. In 1875, a third story was added to house meetings of the Borough Council until 1926-27 when the municipal building was constructed. [Truck believed to have been purchased in 1910]. Walter Moore, seated in driver seat, was killed answering a fire in the Bensalem “Bridgewater” section at Haunted Lane when the truck was destroyed by a train. -
[Bristol Fire Company No. 1]
Bristol Fire Company No. 1 was founded 1857 located on Wood Street at Market Street. It served as Bristol’s first fire company. In 1875, a third story was added to house meetings of the Borough Council until 1926-27 when the municipal building was constructed. Engine doors of the building were also altered (at around the same time). Photograph taken before 1875 as the fire plug had not yet been installed on the street corner. -
[Bristol Fire Company, Station 51 fire truck, Memorial Day Parade]
Pond Street passing Wilson Avenue. -
[Bristol Ford Co. and Atlantic Gas Station at Beaver and Prospect Streets with the Robert W. Bracken Drum and Bugle Corps]
This location was opposite the Bristol Post Office. -
[Bristol Ford Company donating a Driver Training Car to Bristol High School]
From left to right are Lester Michel (driver education instructor), two Bristol Ford Company men who are unidentified, Warren Snyder School Superintendent, David Hertzler, Bristol High School Principal. -
[Bristol Ford Company located at Beaver and Prospect Streets]
This was located opposite of the post office. Elevated railroad tracks in background. -
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[Bristol High School 1976-77 Girls Basketball Team]
Left to right, standing: Michael Russo (coach), Doreen Landofi #5, April Van Wright #21, Deena Green #22, Maria Guerierro #45, Susan Weik #3, Kathleen George (manager), Chuck Long (coach).
Left to right, kneeling: Deborah Missanelli #31, Moreen McDonald #43, Shirley DeMarchis #25, Mary Jo Mama #23, Susanna Tortu #1, Thersea Keys #41. -
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[Bristol High School Basketball Team of 1938]
Standing, left: Coach Stephen Juenger. Others unidentified. -
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[Bristol High School Class of 1916 trip to Washington D.C.]
Class members, (in no particular order) were Eunice Winterstein, Nellie Dawson, Verne Moss, Rose Irwin, Lawrence Young, Grace Stackhouse, Lucy Scheffey, Verne Smyrl, Thomas Groom, Edward Turner, Mary Hibbs. -
[Bristol High School Class of 1919 trip to Washington, D.C.]
Members of the class (but not in the order of photograph) were: Harriet Archer, Emma Pitzonka, Elizabeth Green, Leon Wenxel, Fred Rank, Earl Groom, Mabel Thompson, Olivia Highland, Walter Downing, William Thompson, Hilda Smith. -
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[Bristol High School Class of 1920 trip to Washington, D.C.]
Members of the class (but not listed in the order of the photograph) were: Mary Lehman, Joseph Muligan, C. Stanley Swartz, Clara Woodward, Dorothy Case, Adele Myers, Lewis Myers, Francis Wear, Florence Wigglesworth, Lillian Weisblatt, Margaret Arnold. -
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[Bristol High School field hockey team, 1943-44]
Young women unidentified. -
[Bristol High School Girls Basketball Team “Cardinalettes” of 1939]
“BHS Champs 1939” written on ball.
Standing, first from left is Elizabeth Delker, third from left is Ethel Linck (highest scorer for that year), fourth from left is Thersea Elcenko, fifth from left is Thelma Johnson, eighth from left is Betty Smoyer. Coach Royer is seventh from left.
Other seniors (not in order in the photograph, but mentioned on back): Julia Di Lorenzo, Grace Van Zant, Mary Yates.
Louise Smith, basketball manager kneeling in center behind ball. -
[Bristol High School Girls Basketball Team 1943-44]
Some of the player’s names were written on the front of photograph. Seated, first row, second from left: “Gerry,” third from left: “Kay,” fourth from left: “Thersea,” eighth from left: Marie Bell, tenth from left: Mary.
Second row, kneeling, first on right: “Lil." Back row, standing middle: “Coach.” -
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[Bristol High School Gymnasium]
Stamped on back of photograph: "Nichols Studio, 112 Wood Street, Bristol, PA." -
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[Bristol High School Marching Band during a parade over the newly constructed Delaware River--Turnpike Toll Bridge]
Written on back of photograph: “Dedication of Turnpike Bridge, 1956, May 25.”
This is a photograph of the opening of the Turnpike Bridge over the Delaware River that was built to connect the Pennsylvania Turnpike with the New Jersey Turnpike. The band is marching from the Pennsylvania side to the middle of the bridge. The two people carrying the “Bristol High School Banner" (left to right) are Naomi Vandergrift and Betty Haines. Kenneth Bachman, band director, can be seen marching with the band. He is on the left side. -
[Bristol High School Track Team 1926-27]
Front row seated, second from left: Elwood Bilger. -
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[Bristol High School, Bristol Warrior Band]
Kenneth Bachman, director. -
[Bristol High School]
Stamped on back of photograph: "Nichols Studio, 112 Wood Street, Bristol, PA." -
[Bristol House Hotel, 4 Mill Street]
Building was removed. A large three-story building with condominiums, apartments, and two restaurants on lower-level replaced it (at time of this inscription from Harold and Carol Mitchener). -
[Bristol Jewish Center Hanukkah Menorah display]
Hanukkah Menorah, Bristol Jewish Center, December 7, 2004. The Synagogue was built in 1949 at 216 Pond Street. The congregation was 100 years old in 2004. -
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[Bristol Jewish Center]
Bristol Jewish Center established in 1908 at 119 Pond Street. -
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[Bristol Junior-Senior High School Library]
Note pennants on wall with dates, 1927 is last in line. -
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[Bristol Municipal Building, Pond and Mulberry Streets]
Stone building across Mulberry Street is Fire Co. No. 2. Behind the fire company is a water tower of Bristol Water Works, now removed.
Note: There are several railroad tracks in the foreground. These were part of the freight yard. The freight station stood where the Grundy Tower apartment building was later located in 1970. Spuline Park extends the length of the town (following the route of the old rail line). -
[Bristol Patent Leather Company]
Located on the north side of original railroad tracks opposite Harriman District’s Taft Street. President of the company was Clifford Anderson (Bristol Burgess 1917-1934). The company employed 475 workers and had opened in 1906. A whiskey manufacturing business replaced the Patent Leather Company. The structure was removed as of 2009.