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 Featuring Nostalgia from Wilmington, Delaware and the surrounding New Castle County area.

Beginning our 11th year on the World Wide WEB!

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Strawbridge & Clothier's Corner Stone
Strawbridge & Clothier's Store, Gov. Printz Blvd.
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Gibraltar Gibraltar
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Also, New Photos from:

Brookview
Cool Spring Park
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View HERE photos of PS DuPont School Building
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Warner School WWII Monument
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Photos of the
Charles B. Lore School

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WDG
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DuPont Airfield /
Barley Mill Site

Lynthwaite's Ice Cream
Queen Theater
Hoopes Dam

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CONRAD HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1959
50th REUNION
October 23, 2009

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PS DuPONT HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1959
50th REUNION

November 7, 2009
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WHS
1940s & 1950s Sport Team Members Monthly Meeting

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Check School Links for Class WEB Pages & Reunion Info

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Anyone who lived in the Wilmington, Delaware and New Castle County area during the middle decades of the 20th Century will remember the neighborhoods, the corner stores, the movie theaters, the businesses where our parents shopped and worked, the schools and the hustle & bustle of Market Street.  Join us for a nostalgic visit to that time.  It will certainly bring back a lot of memories.  It's going to rattle your brain and, it might even bring a tear to your eye...

Though this Web Site relates primarily to the years 1935 to 1975, the changes taking place today in Wilmington should not go unmentioned. A series of new pages will be added displaying those changes throughout the area.

~~~ NOSTALGIA TOPICS - Listings, Photos, Maps and Sounds ~~~
Amusements
Bakeries
Beaches
Bottlers & Brewers
Buildings, Places & Locations
Churches (With photos)
Collectable's & 'Things' (Memorable items from the era)
Dairies
Dentists
Doctors
Drug Stores & Pharmacies
Food, Products & 'Fun Stuff'
Food Markets, Seafood & Butchers
Frozen Food Companies
Fruit & Vegetable Markets
Furniture Stores & Dealers
Furniture Dealers - Used (future)
Games & Activities
General Items
Hardware, Paint & Wallpaper Stores
Hospitals (future)
Hotels & Motels
Ice Cream Stores
Industries & Businesses (Other than retail)
Maps (City & County - Hi & Lo Res)
Military Units & Members (Delaware)
Movie Theaters & Drive-Ins (With photos)
Music (Local Musicians, Radio Personalities, Wilmington Radio Station Music Surveys and Other Music Nostalgia
Neighborhoods of Wilmington (With Links)
News & Tragedies
Newspaper Articles, Flyers, Posters & Business Advertisements
Parks, Gardens & Pools
People
Picture Postal Cards
Radio & TV (Local - Wilmington/Phila)
Police & Fire Departments (future)
Restaurants, Diners, Grills, Inns, Cafes, Deli's, Pizza, Sub Shops & Fast Food
Schools (With Photos)
Shopping Centers, Marts & Malls
Sounds (Radio, local area) (Sound clips in Real Audio format)
Sports (Photos, Articles & Data)
Stores, Dealerships, Services & Repairs
Stores: Cellar, Corner & Neighborhood Grocery Stores
Suburbs of Wilmington
Taverns, Package Stores, Bars, Lounges & Clubs
Transportation (With history, data and photos)
Site Visitor's Request...
What ever happened to...
Do You Remember...
Odds & Ends...
 
~~~ PHOTOGRAPH & IMAGE COLLECTION ~~~
Wilmington Before 1975...
Wilmington After 1975... 
Photos of a Changing Wilmington / New Castle County Area
Wilmington in the New Century...
Recent Photos... 
Radio Station Music Surveys
360° Digital Views of Wilmington
Submitted School Photos
Nostalgia Items...

This site was created on June 25, 1999.  The Site Purpose & History can be found here.  Updates and Nostalgia Topic revisions are generally done following the close of each month.

CAN YOU HELP?
I am looking for photographs (without people in them, unless it is a group or crowd scene) of:
> Market Street, 1935 to 1985
> The old B&O Railroad Station
> I-95 Construction
> The Rodney Street Park Observation Tower
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