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Monday, September 7, 2015

Johnstown 1860's


Behind St. Paul Church

Members of my family playing dress up next the church they went to on Virginia Avenue.

Peris

That's the building at the end of Franklin Street Bridge they are trying to fix before it all falls into the river.

September 7, 1944: American First and Third Armies Pound Toward Siegried Line on Broad Fronts


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The Johnstown Tribune - September 7, 1944
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Charles Hogue
John Hogue
Robert Hogue
Kenneth Hogue
Leroy Harvey
Ladislaus William Hanzel
Francis Cooper
Thomas Neral
Frank Doliveira
Andrew Tomasko
Julio Salerni
Robert Steach
Birth Notes:
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ickes - daughter
Mr. & Mrs. John Babik - son
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Myers - son - Robert Earl
Mr. & Mrs. Carroll Carter - son - Gregory Paul
Mr. & Mrs. John McGill - son
Mr. & Mrs. John Kulbacka - son
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Bangs - son
Mr. & Mrs. Russell Passeau -  daughter
Mr. & Mrs. Emanuel Sandoval - son

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Peoples Gas



Peoples Gas - Johnstown

September 6, 1944: Americans Cross Moselle River and Drive For Rhineland Against Furious Resistance


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The Johnstown Tribune - September 6, 1944
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Clarence Ohler
Norman Ohler
Ladies Aux. - Dale Fire Company

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Cambria City Lunch

Cambria City

Yoder Falls

Members of my family on a visit to Yoder Falls. 

Family Time

Reader Barry Orner sent in this shot of his Orner and Lambert family from around 1948. He is the young child  (on the left) being held by his mother. What's really neat with this shot - is the young man on the lower right is wearing a Garfield Grenadiers t-shirt.  As a former Grenadier - wish I had one of those now.

September 5, 1944: Allied Capture of Aachen, Saarbrucken, In Germany, Is Reported From Frontier


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The Johnstown Tribune - September 5, 1944
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David Jones - New House
Harold Kaylor - New Building
Hon. A.A. Barker - GAR, Masons, Odd Fellows
Louis Eppley - Rosedale Grocer - E.E. Davis
John Rose - New House
Somerset - New Water Works
Miss Elmira Noon - Dr. Milton Noon
Mrs. John Bast, Laura and Olive Bast, Miss Elizabeth Collins - thrown from pony carriage in Roxbury
James Bailey
Dore Grazier
JHS Class of 1915
JHS Football Team 
Johnstown Playground
Scalp Level Fire - Joseph McKool, Mrs, Charles Foust and Frank Wissinger
Red Cross Ship - WWI - Miss Mary Boyle
William and Edward Barber
Frank Gale
Miss Ruth Mangus
Stackhouse Park
Pfc. Geno Cocovich
Pvt. Paul Brilhart