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Mainway Supermarket

ca. 1968

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Mainway Supermarket
  • Title
  • Mainway Supermarket
  • Creator
  • Hightower, Frank Floyd
  • Date
  • ca. 1968
  • Identifier
  • 20240305-ffhjpc-0022
  • Source Identifier
  • 202315.05.003
  • Description
  • Residents walk near the Mainway Supermarket located on Center Avenue in the Hill District. Other businesses visible include Med Centre Drug, Boyd's, and the Ellis Hotel. The supermarket, owned by Max and Harry S. Poldolsky, was destroyed during the 1968 riots which occurred after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Persons
    Pedestrians
    Buildings
    Supermarkets
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Frank F. Hightower Photograph Collection
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Hightower, Frank Floyd
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  • Rights Holder
  • Hightower, Frank Floyd