Vintage Johnstown: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

July 31, 1945: U.S. Destroyers Bombard Shimizu Aluminum Plant

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 31, 1945

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Cpl. Emil Estock

Pfc. Charles Marshall

Bihary - Michaels

Wedding Bells:

Heiser - Donnelly

Tutsock - Carmen

Schepis - Cassisi

Kunkle - Calderwood

Sullivan - Pardee

Redd - Brown

Fox - McCombie

Fallon - Sharrick

Toncler - Andreysiwska

Hill - Lenz

Penner - Lehman

Pillar of Ice - The Big Snow of 1958

Andrew Kentula, 5 son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kentula of Maple Ridge, is dwarfed by giant icycle...

Saturday, July 30, 2016

July 30, 1945: Fleet's Guns and Planes Hit Heart of Jap Empire

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 30, 1945

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Homer Miller

Sgt. Robert Garrity

Billy Teeter - 8th Birthday

Friday, July 29, 2016

Virginia Avenue - Morrellville - 1914

My great-grandmother Rose (Baum) Lenz and her two deaf daughters - Margaret Gloor and Lena Pittman. This was taken along the side of their home on Virginia Avenue - next to St. Paul's Church in Morrellville in 1914.

Trolley Time

Strayer Street - the women are getting on in front of what once was Baker's Hardware - Chandler Avenue (which you can't see) is just past the blue building on the right that used to be an old general store.

Ice Can Be Nice - The Big Snow - 1958

Motorists don't mind seeing this mountain of ice on their trying travels through this treacherous territory. It's off the highway, near Route 711 just south of New Florence....holding a icycle from the gigantic ice cake is 16 year Carole Galbraith.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

BROAD STREET BUILDING COMES DOWN

Broad Street - Cambria City

July 28, 1945: B-25 Bomber Crashes Into Empire State Building; At Least 15 Are Dead

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 28, 1945

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July 26, 1945: British Labor Defeats Churchill Government; Attlee to Take Over

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 26, 1945

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Sgt. Nick Filo

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

July 27, 1945: Japan Ignores Potsdam Ultimatum to Surrender

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 27, 1945

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Pvt. Charles Hamilton

Pfc. Gus Poulakos

D Street Crash

A reader sent in this shot and all they know about it is - that it was taken on the upper end of D Street and that the crashed buggy belonged to an undertaker. Judging from the clothes and wagon - I'd say this was around 1900 or so. You have to wonder - if there was a body inside at the time of the crash and if so - did it roll out - down the hill.