WEST PASCO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Pictures — Then and Now

Main Street, New Port Richey, from a 1950s post card and in 2000
The Pasco Building was constructed in 1926. The old photo is undated; the more recent photo was taken in 2006
Grand Boulevard looking north, from a 1940s post card and in 2006
Grand Boulevard just north of Main Street in the 1910s and in 2004
The old photo of Main Street was published in the New Port Richey Press on Jan. 12, 1922; the recent photo was taken in 2004.
The Meighan Theatre from an undated photo; the Richey Suncoast Theatre on Sept. 11, 2003
This building was constructed in 1926 to house the First State Bank of Elfers, but the bank never opened. On the left, Mainaris Apartments; on the right, a photo taken in 2003.
Gulf High School, from the 1948 yearbook; Schwettman Education Center in 2004
The building which housed the New Port Richey Post Office, shown in a 1950s post card, is now owned by First Baptist Church. The more recent photo was taken in 2004
The Chasco Inn from a post card postmarked in 1948; the same structure in 2003.
A scene on the Pithlachascotee River from a post card and in 2001.
Port Richey Community Church, originally a school built by Robert Nicks. The right photo was taken in 2002.
Pierce Grammar School; the New Port Richey Public Library in 2000.
The First State Bank of New Port Richey in about 1925; the law office of Scott M. McPherson in 2004.
The Port Richey Co. office shortly after it was built in 1919; the same structure in 2004. This is the first brick building built in New Port Richey.
The Arcade Building in an early photo and in 2004.
This building was called the Clark Building when it was built in 1922. The left photo is perhaps from the 1940s; the right photo was taken in 2003.
The photo on the left is from about 1925; the photo on the right was taken in 2004.


The photo on the left appeared in the Port Richey Press on Feb. 16, 1920; the photo on the right was taken in 2004.

The photo on the left is believed to be from 1922; the photo on the right was taken in 2004.

The Snell Building, where residents voted to incorporate New Port Richey in 1924, was located on the southwest corner of Main and Adams; the photo on the right was taken in 2004.

Main Street, looking west, perhaps in the 1960s and in 2004.

Pithlachascotee River at Sims Park, in the 1920s and in 2006.

Larger versions of some of these photos can be seen at fivay.org.


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