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The houses in the background remind me of Hamburg, although I suppose it could be Reading too. I don't think it is Lenhartsville or Riverview Park.This was from one of Dad's slides, so that (and the cars in the pics) makes me think its from the 1960's.
But I don't recognize the hill in the background, and I can't imagine what interest Dad would have in a cement slab. FWIW, there weren't any pictures of the finished building with these two slides, which adds to the mystery of why he'd have kept these two images.
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This is just a guess. The hill in the background looks like Windsor St in Hamburg and this looks like the back of the houses on South 4th St. I'm guessing the corner is 3rd and Arch St looking northeast. The building under construction would be a part of what was Pennsylvania Steel where Charlie Brownmiller worked. The cement truck is from T A Miller, a Hamburg cement firm. mick.....
that makes sense. i'm pretty sure my dad used to work there also. but the foundry was there since who-knows-when, so this is presumably an add-on of some sort?
i am thinking of the right foundry, aren't i? down third street towards where you get on the road to Reading. i vaguely recall that after awhile, there was a supermarket put in (a safeway maybe?) just to the "Reading-side" of it.
Yes, that's the foundry. I worked there in the 'cleaning department' as a grinder for two summers in the early 70s and I think this building across the street was some sort of inspection or office facility. You speak of the Acme Market that now is a Dollar General (dry goods)store. The Acme went in in the early 60s. These pictures look to be later 60s but I couldn't say for sure what year. mick.........
ah, this is across the street from the foundry! i have a really fuzzy image of that area being an unpaved parking lot before this construction, maybe for the foundry employees.
i have another extremely fuzzy recollection of actually going into the foundry grounds once. i don't think i went inside (is there even an "inside" to that foundry?). all i (think i) remember is that the weather was cold, and yet when i was in among the pipes of the foundry, i was comfortably warm.
jeez, i don't think i'd want to work there during the summer though.
Yes, I recognized the houses on 4th St. too, and they did add a building on this corner, I think it was a machine shop or pattern shop. The steel foundry closed around 2000, and is now standing empty, but has been acquired by an organization of railroad buffs who intend to turn it into a railroad museum (The Reading RR, I think) when they get the money.
Janet
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