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Lost Haddonfield: Shoptalk

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"Hunt’s Butcher Shop shows the shifting market from general stores to specialty shops in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s," according to Haddonfield historian Katherine Tassini. "Samuel P. Hunt is standing proudly in front of his shop at 145 Kings Highway East with his grandson, Parker Griffeth, who became a well-respected local electrician and fire company volunteer. The butcher shop operated from before 1895 until Mr. Hunt’s death in 1935." provided
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"Hunt’s Butcher Shop shows the shifting market from general stores to specialty shops in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s," according to Haddonfield historian Katherine Tassini. "Samuel P. Hunt is standing proudly in front of his shop at 145 Kings Highway East with his grandson, Parker Griffeth, who became a well-respected local electrician and fire company volunteer. The butcher shop operated from before 1895 until Mr. Hunt’s death in 1935."
"B.F. Fowler ran the last of the old style general stores in Haddonfield," according to borough historian Katherine Tassini. "General stores were like mini department stores, carrying pretty much everything needed by farmers and their families who came to Haddonfield to purchase everything needed by the family and the farm hands as well as the goods needed by those who lived 'in town.' They stocked everything from sugar and salt to clothes, fabrics, farm equipment and fresh fruits and meats."
 "A number of automobile dealerships and service garages were in operation in Haddonfield before 1920," according to "Lost Haddonfield," a book by Douglas Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. The garage in this picture, at 117 Kings Highway East, was "one of the earliest general service garages and may have been the first auto dealership in town."

These pictures are from the Historical Society of Haddonfield.

Related Topics: Haddonfield Historical Society, Old School, historic pictures, and old-time pictures

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