Liberty Street in Summertime, The Burg
Taken from the corner of Liberty Street and Chambers
Street. Our home in the Burg is not in this picture
but was 3 blocks away a bit past Hewitt Street.
God Bless The Ole Burg:)
3 years ago
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Hi Mack: I could remember a Hess Gas Station on that corner that sold gas for 12 cents a gallon and on the other c orner was the pharmacy. But that was in the 30s and of course near Wetzel Field and around a neighborhood that I knew so well. There also was a baby clinic, a dentist office and I believe an A & P store. Regards, Ralph
Mack, that was Episcopo's Pharmacy on the left hand side and now I see a CVS, they tore down some building there.
Hi Ralph & Joe:)
There was a Hess Station there
for many years (its still there
but owned by another company)..
There was an ARCO Gas Station across from it and that was torn down and is now a Dunkin Donuts.
Episcopos Drug Store as Joe says
was there and is in the picture...
this is the place that the Legend
says Babe Ruth broke a window with
a home run.. a legend that is not
true as Ralph pointed out because
he was THERE. On the final part of
the intersection was someones rather large (for the area) fenced
in yard where CVS is now. CVS also
got rid of some Townhouses and a
Little Barber Shop to build there.
A Further note. Episcopos did not
move far..they are just 1 or 2
buildings down from the corner
Drugstore still.
All of this was from MY Burg day..
but all the stuff Ralph says was
there might have been there in
the 1930s as I have no idea when
that ARCO Gas Station was built.
Perhaps Tom Glover might remember
what was here in his day as I imagine he might have used Liberty
Street on his walk towards the Bijou for example:)
Thanks for your comments guys>
My earliest memory of the gas station caddy corner from Episcopo's was when it was an Atlantic gas station. Around 1966 Atlantic merged with Richfield and became ARCO.
I remember the Hess station changing their sign to "Season's Greetings" this time of the year. Yet another sign Christmas was near! And can't forget the toy Hess trucks at Christmas.
BTW wasn't there a Hobby shop a couple of doors from the corner here? I seem to remember there being a dirt track to race RC cars...
the hobby shop was located on the corner (chambers side). the cvs parking lot now occupies that spot.
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