LOCATIONS: In 1957, Ott & McHenry was at 34 South Avenue.
We recently had some information from Sam Sylvester telling us about Bradford in the 1940s and 50s. He had mentioned that storefronts were full.
He was right. We looked up some ads from 1957 to see. Bradford Savings and Loan Association was at 1 Main, Bradford Finance Company at 4 Main, Home Service Loan Company at 7 Main and Taschler Loan Co. at 30, along with Producers Bank & Trust at 56 Main, Citizens National Bank at 33 Main and Bradford National Bank and Tuna Valley Savings and Loan. The addresses for the last two weren’t in the ads.
Need a prescription filled? Along with Ott & McHenry, which of course is still a neighborhood, family run pharmacy, at the time there was Gray’s Drug Store, 3-5 Main, and Park Drug Store Inc. at 20 Main.
A supermarket, shoes, clothes, furniture, jewelers, garages, tires, children’s clothes, appliances and food — and Mayer Brauser, which Bradford folks might remember, had a little bit of everything for sale, too.
Department stores included Yampolski Brothers at 30 Main, Rose E. Kreinson Inc. at 50 Main, Olsen’s at 118 Main.
Clothing stores included Princess Shop, 54 Main; The James R. Evans Co. Inc., 80 Main; S.K. Tate Furs and Fashionland, 98 Main; Kaybee — A Dejay Store, 88 Main; Dana, 39 Main; Penney’s, 61-63 Main; L. Friedman & Co., 114 Main St.; and Jack & Jill Shop, 117 Main.
Shoe stores were quite prominent, too. Ash Shoe Store, 25 Main; Triangle Shoes, 55 Main; Oppenheim’s, 81 Main; Ralph’s at 111 Main.
This list is by no means comprehensive, but it is an interesting look at Bradford’s history.
