Main Street Photos

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Submitted by Tom Bohsen

The Elks Club at 424 Main Street in 1959 before any renovations.

Joseph Fagan Collection

The original house in the rear at 249 Main Street was built in 1883. The two front stores were added in 1955. The property seen here in 1958 sold for $40,000.00.

Joseph Fagan Collection

Trolley on Main Street at the intersection with Franklin Avenue at Tory Corner October 28, 1940.

Joseph Fagan Collection

The trolley on Main Street 1940s. It just passed the bottom of North Park Drive on the left (by brick building) and is approaching Ashwood Terrace not seen on the right by Mulvey's Esso gas station . The brick building is still standing and the billboards to the right are still there.

Joseph Fagan Collection

Trolley on Main Street circa 1940s approaching the corner of Mt. Pleasant Avenue. The gas pumps to the left are those of the Llewellyn Garage. The brick building in the left background was the hat factory in West Orange. Today this site is occupied by an office building and parking lot.

Joseph Fagan Collection

In the late 1950s and early 1960s this building at 310 Main Street on the corner of Llewellyn Avenue was a Shop Rite know as the West Orange Supermarket. The building still stands today and has been the home to several retail businesses over the years. It currently operates as a preschool.

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Submitted by Ward Jennings

The Llewellyn Garage seen in a photo about 1932 at 76 Main Street on the corner of Mt Pleasant Avenue. Irving K. Loveless built this station about 1931 after two other locations in WO. It was in business until 1966 when urban development took the property. Irving Loveless worked for Edison from 1896 until 1926 when he then started the service station business. A son Carl M. Loveless ran the business after 1940 until it closed in 1966. This was the last service station in New Jersey that carried more than one brand of gas at the same time. In the photo it appears to be selling both Texaco and Tydol. After 1952 it sold just Amoco. Note the trolley tracks in the foreground that once ran on Main Street.

Joseph Fagan Collection

145 Main Street circa 1940s. The Edison factories can be seen in the background to the left.

Joseph Fagan Collection

The trolley reached the end of the line on Main Street and turned around on Mississippi Avenue by Our Lady of Lourdes Church. It is seen here October 28, 1940. Today NJ Transit buses turn round at this same location. The house seen in the background is still standing.

Joseph Fagan Collection

Businesses along Main Street just past Tory Corner can be over the roof of a passing trolley car circa 1940s.

Joseph Fagan Collection

Henschel Motors at 85 Main Street at their new building in 1927. They had moved from a building that they had outgrown at 83 Washington Street. This new building provided twice the amount of floor space as the old building. This building was 140 feet deep and 60 feet wide.