Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Lowell Avenue Scenes c.1948

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Michael and Susan Bowman loved to visit their grandparents, the Meeks, who lived on Lowell Avenue and the Bowmans, who lived on East New Yor...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Bowman Family of Walnut Street

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Deforrest and Marilois Meek Bowman grew up just a block apart in Irvington and settled down in the neighborhood.  They set up housekeeping a...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

A Walk on North Ritter Avenue c1948

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Mike and Susan Bowman, who lived on Walnut Street, walked along North Ritter Avenue around 1948. Perhaps they were going to school or just o...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Two Years Later: A Cornucopia of Historic Photos!

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November 7, 2012 marked the second anniversary of Vintage Irvington.  It has been my pleasure to post over four hundred historic images of t...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Bonna Avenue Business--1939

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Bonna Avenue is a small street that runs parallel to the former Pennsylvania Rail Line.  A smattering of modest bungalows sat next to the bu...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

A Cottage Reappears 44 Years Later

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The last time anyone saw the Fisher-Mullin home was in 1968.  It was torn down in that year to make room for a commercial development along ...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A Soldier Poses Next to Former Campus Site--1942

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Butler University had been gone from Irvington for 14 years when this photo of Joseph Clark Moffitt was taken in 1942.  All of the main buil...