July 26, 1943: MUSSOLINI AND FASCIST REGIME FALL; ITALY UNDER MARTIAL LAW

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 26, 1943

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Playgrounds Mentioned:

Tenth Avenue

Broad Street

Bheam

Coopersdale

Oakhurst

Fichtner

Brothers in Service:

William Berkey

Alton Berkey

July 26, 1947: Diary of a Johnstown Housewife

From the diary of Mrs. Elizabeth Oldham of Moxham

Saturday - July 26, 1947

Harry brought Margarets mother & father here and they was here for dinner.

Then he took them over home.

I baked Harry a cake a fine apple upside down cake.

Christmas in July

Nice vintage picture of St. Therese Church on Decker Avenue - Morrellville.  

July 25, 1947: Diary of a Johnstown Housewife

From the diary of Mrs. Elizabeth Oldham of Moxham

Friday - July 25, 1947

I done about all the cleaning to day. Ida cleaned the bed room.

I baked bread and a cake. To day was John's birthday. Alice brought us a piece of his cake. It is good.

Clifford was here a while this evening. 

Bettie is away camping and has the car. Her mother is staying with Clifford. 

Clifford & B.J. and Nancy was over to Ferndale to a carnival.

Hot Loaves to Sate the Appetite

With all the posts on the old Harris-Boyer Bakery this week. Thought I'd post this VJ Repeat of the old bread ovens.

Cambria Theatre

Cambria Theatre - Downtown Johnstown

July 24, 1943: YANKS TAKE MARSALA; AXIS PRISONERS OF WAR 60,000

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The Johnstown Tribune - July 24, 1943

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July 24, 1947: Diary of a Johnstown Housewife

From the diary of Mrs. Elizabeth Oldham of Moxham

Thursday - July 24, 1947

I painted the screens and cleaned the windows and scrubbed the porch and done a lot of redding up.

Update on Harris-Boyer Building

Crews were not working today.

You can't imagine the stench - it stinks so bad that it takes your breath away. You'll soon see why..

The odors are oozing out of the basement...

A basement full of black - standing water.

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Will continue to keep you posted...

Trolley Time

Franklin Street Bridge

Redi Kilowatt

The home of Redi Kilowatt - The Penelec Electric Demonstration Center in Downtown Johnstown. Redi was everywhere - and I can remember going to cooking demonstrations at the building that replaced this one on Broad Street. I always went with my mother - so it must have been some kind of mother/daughter thing through the school - because there were other mother/daughters there. The teacher would cook something up - so along with a bag of Redi Kilowatt toys - we'd all get to eat. Unfortunately the lessons were lost on me - much like an omelet sliding off a Teflon pan - I am an expert at the fine art of begging for leftovers. This was the building on Vine Street.

WORM DOES ITS WORK AT NIGHT

I was scanning a bunch of things from the Johnstown Leader from August 15, 1907 and this caught my eye - Worm Does its Work at Night. I am not a gardener - but doing a google search I found the following on this caterpillar:

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