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Smith's Bridge, 1951
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Smith's Bridge
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Custom's House
King Street, 1957

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CONRAD HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1960
50th REUNION
October 2, 2010
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CONRAD HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1970
40th REUNION
October 9, 2010
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ALEXIS I. DUPONT H. S.
CLASS OF 1961
50th REUNION
Looking for Alumni
Contact: Jim Brady
(302)841-7601
beachbum43_1999@yahoo.com
More info to follow
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WHS 1940s & 1950s Sport Team Members Monthly Meeting
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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 ~~~
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| 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 |
| Genealogy / Ancestry New |
| 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... |
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 Contact: the Webmaster |
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Material on this website is provided for enjoyment, review and informational purposes only and not for any commercial gain. Use of this material is not intended as a copyright infringement on any of the owners or any other entity's copyrighted material. Please realize that all links are maintained by other people, so I disavow any liability on the content of those pages and for their copyright infringement. If you hold copyright to any material contained on this site and wish its removal, please contact the Webmaster. Provide proof of your right to demand removal. If verified, material will be removed immediately. Many of the photos & graphics for this website were submitted from this sites' viewers, from either their personal collections or copyrighted and non copyrighted sources. Credit is given to photos where the source is known. If you are aware of a photos' source and wish credit given, please contact the Webmaster. All nostalgia information submitted by this sites' viewers either as a nostalgia topic addition or as an entry made on any of this sites' forums become the sole property of this website. My original Photos, along with the backgrounds, images and page designs are not to be used or copied without my expressed permission. |
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