New Bank & Trust by the hospitals - 1984

 

BROAD STREET BUILDING COMES DOWN - 1961

 

The New Bank & Trust Building - Broad Street - Early 60's - now the vets office

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Bank & Trust - Pat Malek - Genie Machine

 

Odds & Ends - 1983

Whalley Ford Sales - Windber

West End Cleaners, Balloons and More, WCRO

Dale National Bank

 

Johnstown Savings Bank - 1953

 

Cambria Savings - 1953

 

Johnstown Savings Bank

 

Moxham National Bank 1977

 

Dale Bank - 1973

 

Friendly City Bank - '36 Flood

 

Some Color

Some color for a change. The cars are just coming off the Franklin Street Bridge with Pristow's and Troy Laundry on the right hand side along with U.S. Bank and Penn Furniture. 

A Day in the Life of.....

The old cobblestone streets - Franklin and Main on a very sunny afternoon in 1894 looking towards the old Kernville Bridge. The sign on the small building (now where Ameriserv Bank is) on the right reads: Stevenson Jewelry and Johnstown Freie Press (German newspaper) on the second floor. The stone building next to it used to be a bank. There were two churches along Franklin Street between Main and Vine at that time. The city showed remarkable recovery when you consider this photo was taken only five years after the 1889 Flood. 

The big wagon at the right center is a street cleaning - sprinkler wagon. The building on the far left was where Revco was (later Riteaid before it moved). Dr. Porch had his dentist office in the building on one of the top floors. 

Also, a nice look at a passing Johnstown Passenger Railway car making its way thru town. Not pulled by horses by traveling along its new electric lines with power produced at one of their own plants that was put in after the flood to replace horse-drawn trolleys.

One thing I noticed is the curbing along the outside of Central Park. I think that it's the same curbing that is there now - though I am not 100% sure about that. But still - it looks the same to me. 

And you can't forget about the dog...makes you wonder if it belonged to the photographer or was just roaming around the streets of Johnstown looking for trouble or a quick meal.

Lincoln Building

One of the leading office buildings in Downtown Johnstown around 1900 was the Lincoln Building on Franklin Street facing Lincoln Street. Later Cambria Savings and Loan occupied the site. 

A shop was on the first floor. The upper floors were occupied by doctors, lawyers, insurance offices and lodge rooms. It was a stone and brick structure, extending from Franklin Street to the alley in the rear. 

Next to it on the right was the First Lutheran Church. Both buildings were destroyed in the most disasterous fire in the history of the city up to that time - March 17, 1918, when the Rose and Suppes buildings - also on Franklin Street were destroyed. The fire jumped across the rear alley and destroyed the old Kline's Store on Main Street. Kline's later built a store in the 300 block of Main. 

Hangin around the Corner

Intersection of Vine and Franklin

Franklin Street

Franklin Street

Closer look

Bank Time

Bank Corner - Downtown Johnstown - 1930's

Johnstown Savings Bank

Main Street by City Hall

 

Arrow Furniture Store

Arrow Furniture Store and Cambria Savings and Loan - Downtown Johnstown
 

 

Dale National Bank

Dale National Bank, Town House and Tick Tock