The girl scout float. Does anyone recognize the buildings in the background here?
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This looks like 3rd and State in Hamburg looking from what would be the Item corner toward what is the Windsor Press building labelled 'American S...' here. mick..........
Is State Street (what I would call) the main street in downtown Hamburg? The one that runs parallel with Washington Street?
I realized how little I remember of the layout of Hamburg when I tried to figure out where that church was that your Mom and Dad got married in. I know Washington Street and the parallel main street. The latter if you go north (east?) on it goes on to Lenhartsville, I think. Then I know the main cross street than comes in from the highway form Reading. The movie theater used to (is?) on that street; close to the main street intersection. Finally, there's a parallel street to this that leads to the Hamburg Steel Mill when you head back to Reading.
And that's about all I remember.
You got it right. State is the main E/W street that crosses the Schuylkill at the w end of town. 4th is the main N/S street with the movie theater. "Pennsylvania" steel foundry is where Charlie worked (I got to work there 2 summers, ugh) down on south 3rd St. Mapquest shows the town layout pretty well and some others let you toggle twixt aerial photos/maps. mick......
The store you are looking at is the "American Store," an earlier relative of Acme Markets. A classmate of mine worked in here around 1951 or so, and he recalls having no adding machine. The clerks had to add the bill up on the brown paper bag. Most stores at least had a cash register that could add, but evidently this one did not.
Janet
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