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Showing posts with label organizations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label organizations. Show all posts
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Vintage Ambridge Christmas postcard, circa 1918

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"Christmas Greeting From Ambridge" unposted vintage postcard circa 1918 personal collection In the left bottom corner of this card...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Pfeifer Building, 447 Merchant St., 1929

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Business and home of R. L. Pfeifer  Funeral Director 447 Merchant St. ad Daily Citizen   August 10, 1929 Did you ever notice that the Vocell...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Vintage cars, 6th St. and Duss Ave. circa late 1920s. And an intriguing corner in the corner

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"2 Packards-1 Franklin East Corner 6th & Duss Ambridge" circa late 1920s Laughlin Memorial Library archives Sometimes...
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Sunday, June 16, 2019

Ambridge's Sears, Roebuck and Co.

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Sears, Roebuck and Co. 653 - 655 Merchant St. Daily Citizen August 25, 1954 Ambridge's Sears, Roebuck and Co., opened in 1931, w...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Ambridge memorabilia: Slovenski Narodni Dom token

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Slovenski Narodni Dom token credit: Al Travis Al Travis said he found several tokens like this among his late father's possessio...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

S. Jurkowski Beer Distributor

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S. Jurkowski Beer Distributor ad Daily Citizen Trade Area Directory 1956 Paul Jurkowski (AHS Class of '67), the little boy second...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Lions Boy Scout Troop circa 1938 - 1941

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When I began visiting Laughlin Memorial Library's archives to look through the late Bill Bowan's photo albums, I never expected to f...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Ambridge memorabilia: parking meter token, Ambridge District Chamber of Commerce

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The parking meter token below is somewhat of a mystery. Ambridge parking meter token side 1 Ambridge parking meter token side 2...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

400 block of Duss Ave. in 1930 utility pole ad

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The ad below shows part of the 300 and 400 blocks of Duss Ave. in a 1930 ad for somewhat decorative fluted utility poles. Those steel poles ...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Fire destroys Moose Lodge, former Grand Hotel, 1937

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Moose Lodge fire 1300 Merchant St. September 19, 1937 courtesy John Dunn collection Many of us remember when the Moose Lodge occupi...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Ambridge 1933 anti-union strike violence at Spang-Chalfant

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On October 5, 1933, one of the country's most violent anti-union confrontations took place in Ambridge. Striking workers from several Am...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Ambridge Library in Ambridge Hotel, 1925

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Before Alexander Laughlin, Sr., the owner of Ambridge's Central Tube Company, built the magnificent Laughlin Memorial Library as a tribu...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The razing of historic 451 - 453 Merchant St.

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Another historic Ambridge building is now gone, razed in April of this year. The three-story building at 451 - 453 Merchant St., notable f...
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