Canning for Victory

Venango Street

Vintage postcard of Venango Street in old Westmont.

Old Post Office

The Old Post Office - Downtown Johnstown

Washington Hotel

Washington Hotel - Most up to date bar in the city - City Telephone - 1334

Reese & Bernard

Look at me there in the window of the old Reese & Bernard Electric Company. 

Edgewood School - 1970

Reader Natalie Vitalie Urban sent in this shot of the old Edgewood School on J Street being torn down in 1970.

Trolley Time

Fairfield and Chandler with Marigold's behind the stop sign. Beerman's would be to the left of Marigold and Harris-Boyer is behind the VW Bug.

Johnstown Passenger Railway

Johnstown Passenger Railway - the tracks for the lines - made at Johnson Steel Company in Moxham. It later became U.S. Steel. They were known for the quality of their rails both in the U.S. and worldwide.

Trolley Time

Trolley Time

Mammoth Radio Value

Glessner's - Why You Get More For Less - 1940. 344 Washington Street.

JHS '31

Johnstown High School - 1931 - at work in a chemistry laboratory.

1949 World Series

Baseball fans watching the 1949 World Series. Upper picture on Park Place and lower at the old Geis Store on Clinton Street. 

The Yankees went on to beat the old Brooklyn Dodgers in five games. History was made in the ninth inning of Game 5, when the Ebbets Field lights were turned on, making it the first World Series game finished under artificial lights. The first scheduled Series night game would not be held until 1971.

And as all us old-time Pirates fans know - that was the series with the Orioles. Game 4 was played at Three Rivers Stadium and it was the first-ever World Series game to be played at night. 

In my baseball obsessed youth - I watched the entire series. I was a Bucs fan from the get go - growing up - listening to Bob Prince on the radio. I can remember going to sleep with my transistor radio under my pillow. I still have all my Pirates autographs from Clemente to Stargell. After the games - you could go over by the dugout and whatever players were there - they'd sign everything from baseballs to pictures.