Broad Street and Bloomfield Avenue intersection, about 1902. The then-new Bloomfield Bank building is on the left. The object in the middle of the intersection was a public horse-watering trough.
Bloomfield and Glenwood Avenue intersection, about 1910. Business on the left was Scheuer and Bros grocers, and the tall building (__ Glenwood Avenue) was the Central Building, which included the Harris Brothers store. [Add link to New Town Crier about fire in this building.]
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Broad Street, about 1910. The building on the right (with the stepped roof) was the Great American and Pacific Tea Company store (today known as the A&P supermarket chain). The flat north wall of the Bloomfield Bank building is visible at left.
Similar scene as above, with
trolley tracks plainly visible, as well as stores on east side of street. The dark objects in the air above the tracks were connectors for electrical wires.
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_____________ tobacco and candy story about 1910. Lowney's was a popular brand of chocolate candies. If you can identify this store or man, please
contact us.
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Geib Bakery, 44 Broad Street.
Bloomfield Bank building, about 1905.
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Bloomfield Trust Company, about 1910. In 1929, the Bloomfield Trust Company merged with Bloomfield Bank, directly across Bloomfield Avenue.
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Scherff's Drug Store, corner of Glenwood Avenue and Washington Street, 1882.
Glenwood Avenue, about 1909. The building at far right is Keyler's pharmacy (see below).
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Keyler's Pharmacy, corner of Glenwood Avenue and Washington Street, 1908. William Keyler is on far left.
Glenwood Avenue about 1916. F.W. Woolworth's 5 & 10-cent store is shown on the left, prior to its move across Broad Street.
Center, about 1920.
The Center, from Glenwood Avenue, about 19__.
Trolley in operation on Broad Street, about 1915.
Center, from Glenwood Avenue, about 1915. Building on right was the original location of F.W. Woolworth 5 & 10-cent store. Note the high lightning rods on several buildings.
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Glenwood Avenue and Henry Street, about 19__.
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Eriksen's Lunch diner, about 19__.
Center, about 1928. Woolworth's is the buidling with the awnings on the far right, next to the Bloomfield Savings building (with the two large columns).
The Royal Theater, about 1928, is the second building from the right. Note that the Elks' building, on the right, is flying a flag at half staff, and the tree on the right had been cut away, as is done today, to provide space for the power lines.
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[Fred] Sadler Automobile Sales Company, 610 Bloomfield Avenue. Ford dealership founded 1914, photographed 19__. Now houses ________________.
Bloomfield Savings Institution opened in 1871, and th edifice with the large columns was constructed in 1909. The colorized picture on the right was drawn about 1938. The building was combined with the building to its left (see picture below).
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Broad Street, about 1932. Business include Lobbato Shore Repairs, __________, _________ and ______.
Bloomfield Bank & Trust Company, corner of Broad Street and Bloomfield Avenue, about 1930 and 1940. The eight-story wedge-shaped building remains a landmark for those entering Bloomfield from the south on Bloomfield Avenue. This building replaced the original 1902 Bloomfield Bank building in 1929, when Bloomfield Bank merged with its across-the-street competitor, Bloomfield Trust Company. The bank occupied only the bottom story, while the upper floors were leased to tenant businesses.
The Bloomfield Bank building was replaced by the Bloomfield Bank & Trust Building (below) in about 1929. The cobblestone paving is visible in this image.
The Park Building, 50 Broad Street, about 1930. Tenant businesses at the time of this photo included J Moglia ice cream shop; Olson's (meat) Market; JVC Dress Shop; National Grocery Company; Stephens Pharmacy; Whitney H Roddy real estate and insurance; Raymond B Flatt, architect; Bloomfield Letter Service Company; R M Carrick, dentist; and [Dr.] Walter M Miller. Herman Wolf's Garage was in the rear of the building. The building became Lipton's department store (see next picture) about 1940.
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Lipton's Department Store, about 19__.
Lipton's department store, about 1960. Abraham Lipton relocated his women's clothing store from its original location farther south on Broad Street to 50 Broad Street, where it operated until 19__.
The building, 625-633 Bloomfield Avenue, about 1940. Businesses included [unidentified] sandwich shop restaurant; Bloomfield Exterminating Co.; Miller and Walsh Typewriter Co.; and Speedway Auto Store. The Untied Ads Corp. billboards above include Schaefer beer; Taystee bread; and Gulf batteries.
Fischer's Mens Shop brochure. Fischer's was located on Bloomfield Avenue, and operated from ____ to about 1955.
Frankin Arms Tea Room, about 1970. A pre-Revolutionary Davis family residence was converted to a restaurant, and still operates today as the Bloomfield Steak & Seafood House.
State Diner, about 1950. This restaurant became Willie's Diner from 19__ to 19__, then the _____, and in 200[6] became the State Street __________.
Bloomfield Avenue, early 1960s. S.S. Kresge store, visible on right, operated until 19__. The Kresge chain eventually became K-Mart.
1960s
The building with the red sign is F.W. Woolworth in its final location, where it operated until 19[75]. The expanded and modernized Bloomfield Savings Bank building is visible to Woolworth's left. In 19__, Bloomfield Savings Bank was acquired by Provident Savings Bank.