Masonic Temple - Inside - 1975

This is the inside of the Lodge along Valley Pike. This was last seen HERE. Thanks to reader Natalie for this neat look at what most of us have never seen.

Ford Model T

This is a picture of my grandfather Walter "Yatty" Lenz 1904 - 1979 and his car. He is standing on the left and I think his friends name on the right is John Molchany. They were all from the Virginia Avenue area in Morrellville.

Tops Diner

Power Street - Cambria City

If pictures are worth a thousand words - I know no other way to describe complete poverty than this:

These two pictures are from the Charles Cushman Collection. This current location is Power Street just after you make the turn off of Broad Street near HERE.

The information states that this young girl is their mother.

Old Masonic Temple Postcards

Old Lee Hospital Parking Garage

Proposed Point Center

Another 1917 proposal.

Proposed Oakhurst Bridge

This was another idea from the 1917 report commissioned by the city.

John's Shoe Repair - Cambria City

This is the shoe shop of my grandfather John Cacicia 1892 - 1968. He was born in Trabia, Sicily and came over to Johnstown a couple of times before he decided to settle here for good. He moved his shop around parts of Cambria City and this photo was taken on what is now Broad Street.

Garfield Junior High School

This postcard of Garfield was sent to me by reader Natalie who lives right next to the school. The postcard dates from the late 1950's or early 1960's. GO GRENADIERS!

Cambria City/Morrellville - 1889 Flood

This photo is from the Library of Congress collection. It is not marked as are most of them. I am currently writing a family history book and have been doing a lot of research in regards to the flood and its inpact on Cambria City-Morrellville Area.

There are scant references to this section of Cambria City near the Morrellville line. After alot of thought and research I am convinced that this rare shot was taken just above the railroad tracks along Pennsylvania Avenue - which is just below Virginia Avenue.

Did you know that there was a morgue in Morrellville and that it sat what would have been just off camera on the far left. It was located at 61 Fairfield Avenue in an old bar called Leckey's. For my relatives reading this - our old Hanzel Homestead on Stackhouse Street would have been in their backyard. The current location - right next to the train tracks a couple of houses down from Leo's Pizza - by the Fairfield Avenue underpass.

The church on the upper right is St. Nicholas and though its very hard to tell - St. Columba (which was also used as a morgue) would have been across Broad Street. This is years before the Ten Acre Bridge would be built. You are looking up towards Minersville on the hillside. The new Sheetz store is currently located slightly to the upper left hand side of where St. Nicholas was.

The railroad tracks were more at ground level - until around 1915 or so. Too many people were getting hit by trains and killed at the intersections of Delaware Avenue and Fairfield Avenue. So they moved part of the line above each roadway.