Market Street Sunbury PA - Through The Decades

Sunbury PA

This is a rough draft - I'll come back later and add the Sanborn Fire Maps and additional photos.  For now, this is a start:

" Market Street in Sunbury during the flood in the Susquehanna River in the year 1865, taken from opposite the City Hotel, looking west, the court house in the distance.  The late John B. Lenker, of Chestnut and Fourth Streets...  sits astride one of his trotting horses..."  From Reminisces by Irwin

Market Day, Sunbury Pa - 1905/1907

This postcard is a retouched version of the photo below.  It was common for postcards to be touched up - poles removed, color added, even in 1905!

Market Day, Sunbury Pa - 1905/1907

East Market Street

Market Street Looking East - Trolley

Market Street, Looking East, Sunbury Pa

[when were street lamps installed?]

East Market Street, Sunbury

Looking East on Market Street, Sunbury PA

401 Market Street, Edison Hotel

The City Hotel was built in 1871.  It was renamed the Hotel Edison in 1922.

Looking east on Market Street,  1960s?

Market Street, Looking east from Cameron Park

Looking east - Courthouse - 1875

Market From Front

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LOOKING WEST
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Street Paving - possibly removing trolley tracks?

Looking West, Hotel Edison shown

Grant, Woolworth, Newberry

Brooks, W.T. Grant

W.T. Grant, The Strand, Walkers...  Looking West

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1978 Advertisement

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The 200 Block

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Park Restaurant, 260 Market St 1904 Ad

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CORNER OF 3rd & Market Street

The 300 Block

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Corner Of 3rd & Market

Oppenheimer Clothing

Cameron Park on the left. 

The first building used to hold McGuigan's Public House, 266 Market Street.

Across the tracks is the former   Central Hotel / Reed Hotel  / Hotel Milner / K&L Hotel

[314 Market Street, roughly]

The central Hotel added a 4th floor in 1905

Central Hotel

Reed Hotel

For more photos of the

Central Hotel / Reed Hotel  / Hotel Milner / K&L Hotel

See the FB post here

Globe Warehouse, 343 Market Street

354 East Market, 1904

Leeser Druggist and Pharmacist

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The 400 Block

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404 - Pontious Confectionary 1904

430 Market street in the 1880s

A.J.Stroh Livery Stable and Saddlery

Rea & Derrick's #1 Store, 1940s

430 market Street

2023 on google maps

455 Market Street, Sunbury Gas - 1904

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EAST MARKET - 
RESIDENTIAL

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To Sort Out

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Nesbits on Right

"Compare the wood locomotive in this picture with today's Diesel and the scenery with Sunbury's Third Market Streets as it. is today, and try to deny that times change. The photo, recovered by E. A. Fleming of South Front Street from a dumping ground, shows one of the locomotives of the Northern Central Railroad, predecessor of the Pennsylvania, with its proud crew posing| the cameraman.

Note the awnings in the rear, in front of the present Rea and Derick Central for drug store, with the watering trough for horses at the curb, also the unpaved Street. Written condition of Market Street, , and the fact that the railroad then had a single track on Third on the back 188/5T, 1851."   "

1904 - Drckenmiller in the First National Bank Building