Broadway Street In Milton Pa, Through The Decades
1858, Broadway St, Milton Pa
- On front street, along the river at the end of Broadway: Residence of Gov. James Pollock, Engine Ho, Ware Ho
- North Side Of Broadway: SS Waldron, A Hipp, J.D. J. Buouy, J.F. Gauger, J. Patten, H. Barr, F WHeeton, Dr Davis, Nagle, Canal, T. Pollock, S.B., Mrs Decere(?) , ?, Catholic Church, Academy, WM N, Dan Marsh, L. Evans
- South Side Of Broadway: S. Callawalder, HOTEL Broadway Ah Blaide, Livery Stable PW, S.R., J. Roush, Ja C. J. Murray, Canal, B.S. Shop, Ja Smith, JWR BS Shop, train tracks, School, ?, Wm Marshall, L Tarney, African Church, J.M. Kohlen, Maj T.S. Mackey
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church & Parochial Residence
Broadway Milton, Before the 1880 fire, this was located west of the railroad tracks.
After the fire, the church moved on up the hill.
1878 Broadway, Milton Pa
The Broadway House Hotel
This original building was lost in the 1880 fire, but a new one was built, and today this is the YMCA
View From The Canal Bridge, Looking Down Broadway, May 1880
In 1880, All of Milton Burned.
640 buildings over 125 acres caught on fire, as winds blew embers across the town.
Read stories, and see photos, of the fire here:
The William F. Naugle Building On Broadway, After the 1880 Fire
The Broadway House Rebuilt After the fire
(Today the YMCA)
The Flora Elizabeth Tea Room was later in the Front and Bound Ave side of this building. It was a long and narrow restaurant.
1883, Broadway Milton Pa
From the bottom of this photo, look to the right.
The wide street with all of the people (parade?) is Broadway
Broadway Looking West Towards The River, 1889 Flood
Moore's Grocery is on the left. In the middle is the new Broadway Hotel Building.
The YMCA purchased The Broadway Hotel in 1921
In 1907, The Milton Realty Company was formed. In 1909, Galbraith's lot rent was increased from $25 to $35. Rather than pay the increase, he moved his entire store up the street.. The Milton Realty Company "came possessed" of a 30 year lease on this block of land in February, and Galbraith moved his store in March. The newspaper reported that he stayed open for business as horses pulled his store, on logs, up the street.
Broadway looking west, trolley in the background
This was before the Milton Realty Building was constructed in 1910.
The Miltonian, March 1906
Looking West From the Railroad Tracks, towards the river. 1906
The tall building with the Cupola was Rippel Photography. Rippel took photos of Milton from that Cupola.
Around 1909
The Railroad tracks would be to the right of the news stand
On the left is the Globe Hotel, later Bertram, still later The Stetler Hotel. Today it's Speedys
Galbraith Opened a Butterine & Delicatessen in the Galbraith Building on Broadway & Arch in December of 1912. Butterine was a butter substitute, created when Butter was very expensive due to a milk shortage. Butterine was a chain store.
Bartram Galbraith in front of his hotel, with his two wheel bike. He purchased the hotel in 1909.
Broadway, looking East, With the Trolley
Cadawallader building is on the right
Broadway Looking East, 1909
Holland Cafe at 15 Broadway In Milton
"Tables For Ladies", & Shuffleboard
On the far right you can see the Broadway Hotel Sign
This large building is the Elks Building on Broadway, today this is Lisa's Milltown Deli
The Elks Later moved to Broadway
Looking West, with the Broadway House on the corner
Broadway Looking East
Sometime after 1907 - as the Milton Realty Building can be seen on the right
In 1910 The Milton Realty Building Was Built
You can see how that building looked over the decades from then to now, here:
Parade August 28 1913, for the B.P.O.E. State Convention.
Milton Realty building on the right
1912, Broadway Looking East
Broadway in Milton was paved in brick in the summer of 1906.
Mill Street In Danville was paved in brick at the same time, and both Milton and Danville were having the same issues with convincing the state that they wanted brick, not macadam, and the state funding would only pay 3/4 of the costs, leaving the additional width of "thirteen or fourteen feet" to be paid by the property owners or the town.
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Broadway looking West from the Train Station
Broadway Looking West, With The New Brick Road
After the 1880 fire, the Catholic Church was rebuilt further to the East, on up the hill
If we turned around and looked East here, towards Prospect Avenue, later there were Japenese Cherry Trees and cars would be lined down the road to see them when they bloomed.
Broadway looking East
Showing the gas street lamps
The South Side Of Broadway, looking west
The first four buildings here are all gone - today it's the lot the bank is on, and Arch Street. The 5th Building in today is the H&R Block Building. Beside that is the former Elks Building that today is Lisa's Milltown Deli.
Broadway Lunch on the left
Located diagonally across from the newsstand (Krebs, formerly Galbraiths) on what today is the bank property, Broadway Lunch was operated by Peter Pappas and John Callos. In the 1920s they began delivering sandwiches and drinks at the train station for the waiting passengers. Later , they opened a restaurant on Front St. known as the Alco (American Lunch Company) and two others in Sunbury.
Kurtz Market. On the left that building is gone today, Arch Street is there. On the right is the old Elks building, where Doc Keeley opened a drug store that later became Birdie Kase's Candy Store.
Just across from the YMCA, in what is today Lisa's Milltown Deli, was once Kase's Candy Store. Owned by Frank & Minerva Geiger in 1920, William Kase (Minerva's Brother in Law) took over he business. When Mrs Geiger died, she left the store to her sister, Mrs Bertha "Birdie" Kase, who operated it from 1931-1960.
Across the street is the Capitol Movie Theater
The Billboard over Kase's Candy Store, although illegible here, is for the Legionaire Theater.
The North Side Of Broadway, Looking West
1931 Aerial View Of Milton
It's really hard to see the street, this is an aerial view.
To the left is the river
Broadway From Front, Looking East, 1936 Flood
On the far right is Galbraiths News Store, which was moved from Front Street in 1909.
The Capitol Movie Theater can be seen - it opened in 1934. You can read more about the theater here: https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2020/04/when-milton-had-movie-theatre.html
Seidel & Spangler Store 32-36 Broadway, 1913
Looking West on Broadway, with the YMCA & Broadway Hardware the left
The same buildings as the photo above, but looking from the East.
Regal & Blum Jewelers,
Nicholas Orphan came to Milton from Greece as a very young man. He worked in teh Milton Candy Ktichen, before opening the "Betsy Ross Sweet Shop" on south front street.
Later he moved to Broadway, where his store was renamed "Candyland".
In 1931, he purchased the Excellent Candy Kitchen, and in 1940 he moved to 16 Broadway, where he opened The Besy Ross Tea Room.
Mary Steeley began working for Mr Orphan not long after he moved to Broadway. She was there for 53 years, later owning the place until 1996
The North Side of Broadway, looking up from Lincoln Park
The Bijou Dream Movie Theater stood here until 1933, when it was torn down and replaced with the new Capitol Movie Theater.
Looking West down Broadway, during the 1972 flood
Broadway 2020
2020 Looking West Down Broadway
Looking West Down Broadway. Broadway Lunch used to sit to the left.
The Building on the right is the former Enterlines. The Mural depicts the Capitol Theater
The Former Elks Building, Where Lisa's Milltown Deli is today
And the YMCA which was formerly the Broadway Hotel
Looking East up Broadway
The Betsy Ross Tea Room used to be on the right, Lamprinos used to be in the Subway Building.
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This is really fantastic - thank you for this! I hope you're archiving some of these posts for posterity, it's too wonderful to let slip into forgotten history.
ReplyDeleteSunseri`s Fruit mkt was not in the same building as Kurt`s Meat mkt. It was next to the Broadway lunch. I grew up (1937 till 1959) in the building next door which over the years housed Deaners Plumbing, Eschbach jewelry and then Limbauchs bakery and six apts.
ReplyDeleteYour 2020 photo captioned Sunseri’s Market and Kurtz Grocery were in the same building (I.e., H&R Block) is incorrect. If you look at your previous photos showing the Broadway Lunch (aka, the Greasy Spoon) you can see that the Sunseri Market was in the same building as it that is now gone (as you correctly note).
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