Bonus Army - Ideal Park

03 Aug 1932, Ideal Park, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA --- Pennsylvania: Bonus Army Votes To Go Home. The B. E. F. today, Aug., 3, voted unanimously to evacuate their camp at Ideal Park, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and go home. Eddie McCluskey, fiery red-haired Mayor and sponsor of the Bonus army's occupation of Johnstown, ordered the veterans to leave and announced that he had arranged with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for passenger service for all. Photo Shows - A group of veterans from Spokane, Washington, resting under a canvas, as rain today, turned the camp into a muddy field. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

1936 Flood

Main and Clinton - downtown Johnstown. Nice Hornick and Langer postcard sent in by reader Rick M.

The Hendler Hotel

The Hendler Hotel - one of Johnstown's Better Hotel's.

To my Valentine

Valentine's Day Greeting - nice old vintage postcard sent in by reader Rick M.

Trolley Time

1940's - Morrellville - The trolley is on a section of Fairfield Avenue - that doesn't look familiar to me.

Old Sanitary Dairy Building - Johnstown

This shot from the 1920's shows Sanitary Dairy along Franklin Street in Johnstown.

Dunlo - Cambria County

A couple of different Dunlo, Cambria County postcards from the early 1900's.

Ebensburg - Cambria County

I have to say, that this is now one of my new favorites of Ebensburg, Cambria County - sent in by reader Rick M. This is very early and shows the beauty of the town as the dawn of the modern age gets underway.

Let's Do Lunch

Old Glosser ad from the 1970's. I'll treat all you loyal readers to a little chinese. I - on the other hand will be ordering a hamburger, because I just don't get the draw of chinese food. The only thing I like are the fortune cookies.

Portage - Cambria County

This is a picture postcard of Short's Hotel in Portage, Cambria County from around 1910. I have no idea what street this is or even if the building still exists.

Joe Johns

Nice shot of Joseph Johns High School sent in by reader Joann F.

Iron Street - 1916 - Minersville

You are looking at Joseph and Mary (Bobko) Hanzel spending some quality time with their grandmother Mary (d'Zembak) Stofko at her home along Iron Street - which was near the Ten Acre Bridge. These two are the children of Joseph and Mary (Stofko) Hanzel - my grandmothers older brother and sister.