Other landmarks within the Ardmore Progressive Civic Association borders include the Ardmore Post Office and Ardmore Public Library on South Ardmore Avenue ; the Ardmore Ice Skating Club on Greenfield Avenue ; a public swimming pool ; lighted tennis / basketball courts ; the community center known as " The Shack "; and two senior housing projects.

Residents from South East Ardmore and Wynnewood cooperate as the ArdWood Civic Association.

The North Ardmore Civic Association represents residents of North Ardmore and Wynnewood north of Montgomery Avenue.

Residents of Wynnewood cooperate with those of adjacent Ardmore in many ways, one of which is the ArdWood Civic Association.

* Kobe Bryant, National Basketball Association player, member of the Los Angeles Lakers, went to Lower Merion High School in Ardmore.

The local Gaelic Athletic Association club is Ardmore GAA.

The Boy Scouts of America Arbuckle Area Council maintains offices in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and serves youth and their families in Pontotoc, Murray, Johnston, Garvin, Coal, Atoka, Carter, Love and Marshall counties in southern Oklahoma and the city of Ringling.

The present parish church is the main church in the parish of Ardmore and Grange, however, due to a lack of priests in the area, the Parish Priest, Father Milo, serves that parish.

Other landmarks historically associated with Ardmore include the Autocar Manufacturing Company, an important manufacturer of trucks and jeeps during the world wars, once located on Lancaster Pike on the site of the current Ardmore West Shopping Center, which burned down in a famous conflagration in 1956 ; the Ardmore Theater on Lancaster Pike, now the Philadelphia Sports Club ; Harrison's Department Store, on the north side of Lancaster Pike across from the theater ; Mads Record Shop, rock music mecca since the genre's inception, still going strong ; the Merion Art Center ; the Pennywise Thrift Shop of Jefferson Medical College ; Lyons Hardware Store on Rittenhouse Place ; Rittenhouse Electric, also on Rittenhouse Place ; A. Talone Cleaners at Lancaster and Greenfield ; and luxury travel company SWAIN Tours.

* Black Theater of Ardmore

Two sites, located in the Haverford Township section of Ardmore, The Merion Golf Club, East and West Courses and Pont Reading are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oil production started from the Argyll field ( now Ardmore ) in June 1975, followed by Forties in November of that year.

During the 1996 off-season, the Lakers acquired 17-year-old Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets for Vlade Divac ; Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in that years draft, by Charlotte.

Ardmore is the setting of a song by Old Crow Medicine Show called Alabama High-Test.

Ardmore is located equidistant from Oklahoma City and Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas at the junction of Interstate 35 and U. S. Highway 70, and is generally considered the hub of the ten-county region in South Central Oklahoma, also known by state tourism pamphlets as Arbuckle Country and Lake and Trail Country.

Ardmore was named after the affluent Philadelphia suburb and historic Pennsylvania Main Line stop Ardmore, Pennsylvania, which was named after Ardmore, Ireland by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1873.

Wayne was so named by early railroad workers from Pennsylvania who adopted town names from the railways there, including Wayne, Paoli, Ardmore, and Wynnewood.

Originally named Athensville in 1853, the community and its railroad station were renamed Ardmore in 1873 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, on whose " Main Line " west out of Philadelphia Ardmore sits, at Milepost 8. 5.

* Take My Life by Eddie Cantor ( 1957 ) with Jane Kesner Ardmore ; Doubleday

She was the subject of an authorized biography, The Self-Enchanted ( 1959 ), written by Jane Ardmore, that has often been incorrectly called Murray's autobiography.

The Brigade was originally equipped with 8 Armoured Autocars mounting 2 Colt Model 1914 machine guns ( later replaced with the standard British Vickers MG ) manufactured by Autocar in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

Bala Cynwyd is served by the Lower Merion School District with its headquarters in Ardmore.

Within the last few decades, Ardmore has lost its status as a fishing village as fishing laws became more restrictive and the traditional way of life was given little consideration by the EU and national lawmakers.

Ardmore is served on a daily basis by Bus Eireann route 260 which links it to, inter alia, Youghal, Midleton and Cork.

Building began in 1969 with the construction of the Elm Mount estate followed by Thorndale, Whitethorn, Ardmore ( in the townland of Kilmore Little, the site of the first school ), Montrose and Pinebrook and ending with Beauvale in the 1970s.

Much of the right-of-way still remains between Schauffele Plaza in Ardmore ( the former terminus of the line ) and Eagle Road in Havertown, although the tracks were removed and the right-of-way paved for dedicated use by the replacement bus line, now SEPTA Route 103.

In May 1930, Strawbridge & Clothier helped remake the American retail scene by opening one of the first suburban branch department stores in the nation, located in the Suburban Square shopping center in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

During the first half of the 9th century the shores of south-east Ireland were ravaged time after time by Danish expeditions, Ardmore and Lismore being the subjects of a number of raids.

One interesting find was a specimen of the migratory locust figured in John Curtis British Entomology-Folio 608 Locusta christii dated 1 August 1836 .. " In the cabinets of Miss Ball and the author "- " Another specimen, captured last September at Ardmore in the county of Waterford by Miss M. Ball has been kindly transmitted to me for my inspection by Mr Robert Ball of Dublin.

Carrigtwohill is also served by bus routes 240, 241 and 260 with connections to Youghal, Whitegate, Cloyne, Ballycotton and Ardmore.

Haverford Township contains portions of the communities of Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Drexel Hill, and Wynnewood.

Towns on the lower Main Line adjacent to Narberth include Overbrook, Merion, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr.

The community of Ardmore is a suburb on the west side of Philadelphia, within Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County ; and Haverford Township in Delaware County.

Ardmore is adjacent to Wynnewood ( east ), Haverford ( west ), Gladwyne ( north ), and Havertown ( south ).

And the South Ardmore Betterment Alliance is a community group in the southern ( Haverford Township ) portion of Ardmore which organizes various community activities.

Sign marking the border of West Ardmore and Haverford

* J. Howard Pew, son of Joseph Newton Pew, founder of Sun Oil Company ; his estate " Knollbrook " is located on a tall hill barely visible above the intersection of Grays Lane and Mill Creek Road, touching Ardmore, Gladwyne, and Haverford

* First Friday, a 501 ( c ) 3 non-profit to bring art to the Main Line and revitalize the communities of Ardmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr

ZIP Code 19041 borders the unincorporated portion of Haverford Township called " Havertown ," as well as the unincorporated communities of Bryn Mawr, Gladwyne, Ardmore, Wynnewood, and a small portion of Broomall.

Towns on the lower Main Line adjacent to Wynnewood include Overbrook, Merion, Wynnewood, Narberth, Ardmore, Haverford, and Bryn Mawr.

The college absorbed the Ardmore Teachers College ( 1974 ), Loretta Hall, Kindergarten Teachers College ( 1975 ) and North Shore Teachers College ( 1982 ).