Vintage Johnstown

Sunday, June 7, 2026

CIVIL WAR - Week of May 23, 1862 - Local Soldier Deaths & Troop Letters Home

Griffith Evans - 11th - Cambria Guards

Soldier death - son of Samuel Dillon - Cambria Guards

John Lister - Wounded in Action

Cambria Guards - Letter Home

SIr John's Run, VA., Balt & Ohio RR

May 7, 1862

FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS

Camp Near Falmouth, Va.

May 11, 1862

Cambria Guards Promotions

Lt. R.A. McCoy

Sgt. R.M. Jones

Sgt Daniel J. Jones

IN ARMED FORCES ON WEST COAST

Pvt. Chester Edward Fuller, 18 yrs old of Nanty Glo and Anthony Caloroso, 17 yrs old of Johnstown.. I have hundreds of these in my collection and will start posting these on a more regular basis. I can't tell if the year if '41 or '44. It looks like it could go either way.

September 8, 1858 - FATAL AFFRAY IN JOHNSTOWN

Edward Beamish and William Aarontrue (Arentrue)

Grant's - Downtown - Under Construction

Saturday, June 6, 2026

October 1894 - 17th Ward Accidental Shooting, Aged German & Dose of Rough on Rats, Rolling Mill Mine Accident & 17th Ward - Erring Couple Found

William H. Horner - shot himself while out hunting.

Jacob Duwell - dose of Rough on Rats

Coal Miners - Adam Volenberg and Michael Molzin - Rolling Mill Mine

Charles Lane, Miss Annie Hoover, Elizabeth Lane and Mrs. Alice Lane - 17th Ward Couple

Cambria Theatre - October 1919

I believe that this shot of the interior of the old Cambria Theatre on Main Street was taken in October 1919. The movie posters lining the lobby are all promoting a silent film called "Checkers" which was released in the late summer of 1919. It's one of those lost films - so only stills remain. The film looks like it came here on a delayed run - because every film shown in Pennsylvania had to go thru our own set of state censors - sometimes even further to county censors - which meant it took a few extra weeks for a first run film to be shown anywhere in Pennsylvania.