Showing posts with label businesses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label businesses. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Car Crashed into Haag's Drugstore in 1961

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Haag's Drugstore operated in the Irvington Plaza at 6401 East Washington Street. Besides serving as a pharmacy for the neighborhood sinc...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Google Streetview Reveals the Lost Structures of the Greater Irvington Area, Part II

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      Since 2007 the Google car has captured dozens of lost structures from the greater Irvington area. In part two of this series you will ...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

Photos Show East Tenth Street Before Linwood Square

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      On May 12, 1950, patrolman Millard Swain guided his motorcycle westbound on East Tenth Street near Linwood Avenue. It was a beautiful ...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Panoramic Photographs Show Many "Lost" Irvington Structures

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      Throughout 1937 and 1938, a photographer from the Bass Photo Company documented the construction of the new International Harvester fa...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Irvington Plaza Held Grand Opening in 1955

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     On May 11, 1955, local east-side residents flooded into the newly-built Irvington Plaza. Built on 22 acres of land just east of Irvingt...
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Clapp Family Operated an Irvington Grocery Store For 50 Years

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     For nearly fifty years, Irvington residents shopped at the Clapp Brothers (also known as the Clapp Food Market) Grocery at 6044 East Wa...
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Friday, August 22, 2025

A Walk Down East Washington Street in 1989

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         36 years ago, Robert Phelps, who lived at 5317 Lowell Avenue, walked down East Washington Street on a sunny day in 1989 and snapped...