Vintage Irvington

      315 seniors from Thomas Carr Howe High School gathered on the evening of May 28, 1948, for their graduation ceremony. There had been a...

      Howe High School student, Phyllis Halcomb, cultivated many friendships during her tenure in the school from the mid to late-1940s. In ...

          Phyllis Halcomb, the daughter of Oscar and Mary King Halcomb, was very involved at Thomas Carr Howe High School before graduating ...

Newly-married Evelyn Schneider Ferling paused in front of the newly-built Fourth Church of Christ Science at 5201 Pleasant Run Parkway Sout...

Hundreds of young Irvington residents served their country during World War II. Life magazine came to the neighborhood in the middle of ...

Previous posts revealed images of Poplar Road in the 1920s. By the 1940s, you will note that the trees had matured and that some of the ...

Poplar Road winds through the small enclave of Pleasanton in western Irvington. The street cuts through the center of the neighborhood ...

Little Evelyn Schneider of 327 Poplar Road enjoys her ride in a wagon being pulled by a goat. An entrepreneur likely brought the goat into...

These historic photographs reveal an emerging neighborhood in 1923. Pleasanton had only begun as a development only a few years prior ...