If we went with him, we had a cherry coke mixed from the fountain. My father went every evening to Max's for his Evening Bulletin. They may very well have been the first Jewish shop keepers in Brookline since the first immigrant shop keepers in the 1920's. When Sorber passed Max Factor and his wife Sylvia became the owners.
Sorber or an assistant came to you door to let you know. If you made a long distance call you went o the phone booth at Sorber's. In the Sorber days the pharmacy was where you bought Abbot's Ice Cream weighed out on a scale with brone weights. Russel Sorber was also the first fire chief of the Brookline Fire Company. Sorber, '21, have opened a new store in Brookline, Delaware County, Pa. In the Bulletin of The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy Alumni Report, March 1920, notes" Sorber's pharmacy was a significant presence in Brookline. The first merchant at 1 Brookline Boulevard was Sorber. First it was Sorber's Pharmacy then Max Factor's Pharmacy. Today's Kettle was once another gathering point. At the far end stands the Brookline Elementary School.įor the early years of the 20th century, Brookline Manor was an exceptional and far thinking suburban community that offered every convenience and necessity for the family.
Along Darby Road stood the Police Station, The Fire Station, The High School and the Library. Saint Faith, The Methodist Church, Annunciation, and Temple Lutheran. At the upper end of the “Boulevard” mercantile stores provided shoe makers, tap rooms, florists, bakery, barbers, a Five and Ten, the Quaker Store, the A&P grocery store and the Boulevard movie theater. Further along the Boulevard four main churches established themselves. A Red Arrow bus also wended its way down the Boulevard and through the streets of what would become Chatham Village.īrookline Boulevard would be home to commercial, religious and educational services. The Red Arrow ran along Darby Road and the P&W, (The Philadelphia and Western High Speed Line) ran at the far end.
The arrangement of a wide boulevard as the center of the community shows a forward looking concept of the ideal suburban community, At either end of the boulevard and down its center ran the latest in public transportation. As we see in the 1909 plan above we find an arrangement of regular streets divided by a broad “Boulevard.” The Boulevard intersected at a “T” juncture with the major township thoroughfare, Darby Road.
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