Sally Ryan Costik

With over two hundred photographs, this book by Sally Ryan Costik and the Bradford Landmark Society showcases the everyday lives of Bradford citizens--people laboring in the oil fields or industries or stores; events that entertained, sorrowed, or thrilled; and buildings that marked the streets and are so much a part of the town. Several exceptional images are presented: the first airplane landing in a local field; a head-on freight train collision in the 1920s; the interior of Shea's theater;...See more

With over two hundred photographs, this book by Sally Ryan Costik and the Bradford Landmark Society showcases the everyday lives of Bradford citizens--people laboring in the oil fields or industries or stores; events that entertained, sorrowed, or thrilled; and buildings that marked the streets and are so much a part of the town. Several exceptional images are presented: the first airplane landing in a local field; a head-on freight train collision in the 1920s; the interior of Shea's theater; children standing in a schoolyard long since abandoned; and a powerful landscape filled with towering standard oil rigs. See less