Changing Conemaugh to Johnstown sent to State - January 9, 1832 - Ebensburg Sky Newspaper

 

Columbian Hotel

Columbian Hotel - Johnstown 

City Officials - 1894

Johnstown population in 1894 - 24,544. At the time - the city had 17 wards. Kernville, Roxbury, Morrellville, Oakhurst (Sheridan Station), Coopersdale, Rosedale and Upper Prospect were still not part of the city at the time. 

Smokeless Seal

Changing the seal of the city - 1970's.

Voluntary Removal - 1972

The Other Side

The other side of the brochure from the previous post.

"The Friendly City"

Johnstown - 1910

Going through Johnstown, Pa. - 50 miles per hour - August 1910

Main Street - 1922

Downtown Johnstown - Main Street - 1922

Downtown Johnstown - 1960's

Another shot of downtown Johnstown from the 1960's.

Johnstown Savings Bank - Main Street

Nice vintage shot of downtown Johnstown in the 1960's.

Clinton Street - 1905

Looking up Clinton Street from the intersection of Main Street. in downtown Johnstown. This is from around 1905. St. Johns Church is sort of in the middle on the right hand side. 

Hulburt House - Pre 1889

You are looking at pre-Flood 1889 Johnstown. This is the Hulburt (Hurlburt) Hotel that at one time was an old Ice House. This hotel was destroyed by the Flood. In many old accounts - quite a few survivor stories came from people that were staying at the hotel at the time.

Johnstown - Downtown

Just a beautiful picture of downtown Johnstown from the Charles Cushman Collection.

Garbage Collection - 1925 Style

Vintage Repeat - Another clipping from the Erma Rose Gloor scrapbook - this time it's Johnstown and garbage - January 1925. I know why she cut this out - my grandfather Walter Lenz (her Uncle) was a garbage man - and my mother always said he used to bring such interesting treasures home - for all I know - he might actually be one of the guys on the picture. I know some of his vast collection must have been saved from the scrap heap while he was on the job and I'm thankful for that. Trouble is - my grandmother was the type that threw everything away - so not all of his collection survived. I did the best I could with this clipping - but as you can see - it's still a bit messed up.

Franklin Street - Downtown Johnstown

Vintage Repeat - Franklin Street - Downtown Johnstown - around 1894 or so. 

Union Park - Downtown Johnstown

Current location of the Cambria County War Memorial. All of the graves from the time of the Revolution to Civil War were moved out of there some of them up to Grandview Cemetery.

Johnstown - "The Friendly City"

This is taken from an early 1930's brochure done by the Chamber of Commerce. I scanned this is and now have lost track of it - since I moved. Otherwise I would have finished doing the rest.

Johnstown Police Department - 1904

Nice look at those that Protect and Serve - Johnstown Police Department - 1904. Sent in by reader Cindy M.

Grime Free Neighborhoods - 1930's

Summer Repeat - three street cleaners sitting in front of Cochran Junior High School on Central Avenue in the 1930's. They look just like tanks to me. But considering there were still quite a few horse drawn wagons parading around, I guess you would want to be in something like this.
I thought our street cleaner was old - it just goes to show - not much has really changed when it comes to keeping all of us safe from grime.