Grundy Archive

[Box car filled with refrigerators for Clarence W. Winter’s store on Mill Street at Wood Street]

Item

Dublin Core

Identifier

7.16a.002

Description

This was at the Pennsylvania Railroad freight yard at Pond and Mulberry Streets. Clarence Winter attended Bristol Borough schools. He and his friend Charles Strumfels went fishing in the Delaware River near Bristol in 1914. They caught a fish weighing 330 pounds and was 8 feet 6 inches long. The roe of the fish sold for $200 to a New York City restaurant. Clarence Winter operated a store at Mill and Wood Streets that sold kitchen appliances. He also sold Buick cars in a building behind the Mill Street store.

Creator

Nichols Photography Studio

Date

January 1927

Rights

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Collection

Citation

Nichols Photography Studio, “[Box car filled with refrigerators for Clarence W. Winter’s store on Mill Street at Wood Street],” Grundy Archive, accessed December 3, 2024, https://archive.grundylibrary.org/items/show/2640.