Pearl River Businesses

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Buried Treasure

A neighbor of Tom O'Brien's, Sarah Brereton, discovered this list of Pearl River businesses while having work done in an old garage. The garage has a dirt floor.  It was under the dirt.  She loaned these pages to Tom so we could scan them for our website.

While the first page is somewhat damaged, most if it is still legible.  The other three pages are in good shape.

The pages found - just four - are likely not complete as the first entry begins with C, for Caterers.  But we know Pearl River had barber shops.  So the entries for A-B were most likely on a page that is missing.

Note that the phone numbers in Pearl River have only four digits.  Back in the day, that's all you had dial to place a call entirely within the local calling zone.

Reading the names of the businesses is a trip down Pearl River's memory lane. 

Enjoy

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