Photograph- Man holding up a copy of the Lancaster New Era newspaper with the headline "Fire! Man, What a Fire in Suburbs of Ronks - Local Tobacconist Loses 2 Buildings, Has No Insurance".
Photograph- Man holding up a copy of the Lancaster New Era newspaper with the headline "Fire! Man, What a Fire in Suburbs of Ronks - Local Tobacconist Loses 2 Buildings, Has No Insurance".
Description
Man holding up a copy of the Lancaster New Era newspaper with the headline "Fire! Man, What a Fire in Suburbs of Ronks - Local Tobacconist Loses 2 Buildings, Has No Insurance".
Lancaster's southeast quadrant, the seventh ward, shown with members of Lancaster City Council and Redevelopment Authority tour the area to be cleared in the 1960s. Mayor George Coe, with paper in paper in pocket, leads the group. W. Hensel Brown, Jr. is on the sidewalk at left.
F. Ruth Hostetter in her beauty shop - Ye Quality Shoppe - in the Woolworth building. In later years, Miss Hostetter also operated a restaurant and beauty shop from her home at 602 North Marshall Street in Lancaster.
Provenance
Donated by F. Ruth Hostetter's great nephew, John I Blanck and her Niece, Meda H. Blanck, both of Manheim, Pa
