Vintage Johnstown

Friday, August 7, 2026

Trolley Time - Chandler and Strayer - Clarks Dairy Store

Brother-in-laws - Corp. David E. Ling & Staff Sgt. Clarence D Bracken - Vintondale

Thursday, August 6, 2026

July 30, 1868 - More on Tad Lincoln in Cresson and other Interesting Tidbits

A German named John Widman falls of bridge near company store.

Scotch miner John Hodgets - on train tracks near Johnstown

Tad Lincoln tries to jump a moving train.

July 9, 1868 - Odds & Ends

Mrs. Lincoln and son Tad staying at Cresson

Reigart - unknown first name drowned at Dornick Point.

Newborn infant found dead near Union Cemetery.

Whacked by baseball

The Letters - May 21, 1915 - To Mrs. Anna Hay (from Johnstown currently in Florida) from Mrs. Margaret Roberts in Philadelphia

Oak Lane, Phila. 5,21,'15

My dear Mrs. Hay,

I feel quite delinquent in being so slow in acknowledging the receipt of your card and of the delicious grape fruit which arrived safely and which has been a real treat. Accept hearty thanks for my choice (?) of it; we have all enjoyed it.

As you know Mrs. Austin was in Johnstown for a short visit *see previous letter I posted). She felt that she must go this month between the dates of important club meetings here and also at a time when your fine apple orchard, of which she had heard so much, was in bloom. It was a matter of regret that her visit antidated your return.

Shall you be able to take us in on your return trip? I trust you may, as I have very pleasant recollections of your visit here two years ago. I greatly enjoy an agreeable companion when we can sew together and enjoy the fresh air on the porch. I was very much pleased with Mrs. Fisher, her son, also; they are the kind of people that I wish to know better.

Mrs. Austin comes home each time more in love with her son-in-law—a very pleasant state of affairs which I feel sure will always continue. It is quite certain that love is the greatest thing in the world.

I suppose the awful war (WWI - started in 1914 - U.S. entered in 1917) is as disturbing to you and your relatives in the South as it is to us in Phila. May Heaven send a speedy end to such horrors.

With all good wishes and hoping to see you in the near future.

Sincerely Yours,

Margaret L Roberts

November 2, 1913 to December 14, 1913 - The Famous Billy Sunday's Revival Campaign in Johnstown

These two pictures show different angles of the same area. That odd building on the left hand side tucked next to where Point Stadium is now -along the river - was the temporary - Turtle-Back Tabernacle built on Johns Street.