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, NY in the 1940s and 1950s
Merchants and Downtown in the Forties and Fifties

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2-8-0 90 EastBound, crossing Pelton Rd, entering L&HR yards, taken 10/13/40.

Warwick Knife Factory, early 1900s
This from Shirley O'Brien Leinweber, provides a touching glimpse of downtown Warwick in the forties.

      WHEN LEON AND I WERE IN WARWICK LAST AUGUST, WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT BOB TOMS WAS THE ONLY ONE ON MAIN ST. THAT I KNEW. BOB AND I BOTH WORKED FOR ADAM DUGHI. I STARTED WHEN I WAS 15 YRS. OLD WHEN IN HIGH SCHOOL, LONG BEFORE ROBERT CAME UPON THE SCENE.
      THE ONLY TIME THAT ADAM EVER CLOSED THAT STORE WAS THE DAY THAT LEON AND I GOT MARRIED, BECAU
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Paulette at Akins, 1957

Intersection of Oakland, West and Main Streets

The Warwick Novelty Shop (Heiblim's), 1949

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