Jersey Shore Pa. Picture Postcard Of New Crawford Hotel

This is the new Crawford Hotel that no longer stands. It used to be at the corner of S. main st. and Thompson St. in Jersey Shore Pa. It has an Antes Fort Pa. Postmark and that Post Office is still in operation to this day! My Mother lives right next to it. It's directly across the street. It is literally someone's converted living room. It's very small.

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EDIT: updated the image from seller's to my own.

Nice period postcard. I'd venture to guess the addressee's location in Nesbit, PA, was an even smaller town!

For those who are interested in some history of that hotel, this similar image (and caption) was taken from the history book, "Jersey Shore":

Very nice Vintage post card!

WOW! Thank you wt1 brilliant as always! Yes Nesbit is mainly just farm fields with a few houses scattered here and there like a patchwork quilt. I used to date a girl from Nesbit when I was in high school.
To elaborate on wt1's great information:
An interesting factoid was that the Crawford was the first legal hotel in the boro. It was a clapboard and dormered establishment in the 1820's It was established by a Mr. William Babb and the building was originally located on the corner of S.Main and Thompson streets. The original name of it was the Exchange Hotel. He ran this business until around 1850. It was later replaced by the brick establishment depicted on the card.

EDIT:
I believe this is a "MICK" which was a local photographer and made postcards and stationary and the like. His stuff is highly sought after and has been for a very long time. It's actually quite a challenge to find any of his stuff postally used as many just bought them new and put them straight in their collection it would seem?

Also interesting to note that the Germans hand colored these and WWI was just around the bend in 1914!

What great local Pa. history and color... love it!

wt1:







#1.This is where I grew up in Jersey Shore, Pa. Corner of Washington & Lincoln Ave.

#2.This is the house pictured next to the Crawford. It was moved like it states in the book and now resides as a side-by-side apartment house beside the VFW building pictured in the lower left.





This is how far it moved! Amazing for that time period! (Shown below)

#1. It's old/original location.

#2. where is resides today!