Ambridge Memories

Gene's Coffee Shoppe & Dining Room Thanksgiving Menu ad Daily Citizen November 27, 1929 Gene's Coffee Shoppe & Dining R...

This photo, taken on Easter 1958, belongs to my mom, Agatha Bohinsky. It was taken in the backyard of 1522 Beaver Rd. Nancy, Kathy, and ...

Ambridge's doughboy statue currently stands in P. J. Caul Park, 11th and Merchant Sts., but it once stood further west on 11th St., at t...

Memorial Day was once called Decoration Day, since traditionally, that was the day the graves of military veterans were decorated in honor o...

My doing research on Ambridge history sometimes feels to me like opening my plaid, metal lunchbox  when I was a student at Divine Redeemer S...

Where in Ambridge did you see the toys that you put on your Christmas wish list? And which ones did Santa bring you? And remember when alu...

Northern Lights in Baden was packed with shoppers during 1960's Christmas shopping season. Even though the parking lot was huge, tryin...

Christmas card Ambridge Savings & Trust Co. 1915 The Ambridge Savings & Trust Co. called itself "The Oldest Bank in A...

This is the 500 block of Merchant Street at night in December, 1960, looking north towards 6th St.: a canopy of big, colorful Christmas ligh...

I seem to recall that The Daily Citizen passed out these softcover books of Christmas music every year when I was growing up in the 1950s,...

Today is Veterans Day, so it seemed like an apt day to post this: Spang-Chalfant Veterans Memorial Beaver Valley Times July 15, ...

Finding a Christmas season job wasn't easy during my college years at the end of the 1960s, not because jobs were scarce, but because I ...

"Santa Claus is coming to Ambridge" ad Beaver Valley Times November 24, 1959 You could sometimes visit "Santas...

Memorial Day 1950 P.J. Caul Park photo courtesy of Bob Mikush, used with permission The above photo is from the Memorial Day 1950 cere...

500 block of Merchant Street, Ambridge late 1960s? photo courtesy of Betty  Lazorisak, used with permission The photo above shows t...

I have been a chocoholic for as long as I can remember, and for that, at least in part, I blame the Anderson's Candy store. ...

WMBA ad, Win a Big 6' Easter Bunny, Beaver County Times , March 31, 1965 In 1965, WMBA radio--1460 on your dial--held a contest for...

Ambridge Annual Easter Egg Hunt ad, Daily Citizen , March 24, 1959 Ambridge once held annual Easter egg hunts at Ambridge Borough Park...

"This is Northern Lights Shoppers City, opening tomorrow for business," Beaver Valley Times , October 31, 1956 This pos...