Big empty Lots
The slow closing of Big Lots is a reminder of how things felt when we had a mall.. And how that closed, too.
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It’s Labor Day at Tri-State
Over 185 billion envelopes are produced each year. Just not in Ashland as of November 2024.
What a drag! Actors guild of Schuylkill County forced to cancel drag show
The Actors Guild of Schuylkill County canceled their “A Night at Disney” drag fundraiser due to legal threats from the Catholic Diocese, igniting debate on expression versus religious principles.
2023 SUMMER SERIES EPISODE 2: TUMBLE AND RUN
The story of Tumbling Run not just cotton candy and crowds. There were floods. Deaths. Suicides. And murders. It was a little resort that could. And eventually could not.
Just one of those parks that is gone for good. And memories of it are too.. All that exists now are tales of those who told tales of how great it once was.
Summer series episode 1 addendum: Stepping into a pig mess
Porky the Paper Eater from Angela Park is not the same one that is at Knoebels.
So .. go deep into the pig Sh*t with us as we traverse a history of paper eaters from coast to coast and sea to shining sea.
75 years unknown: The crash of Flight 624 over Centralia
Witnesses at the time report, and stories got handed down, that the tip of the wing nearly took out a Colliery.. Some say they saw faces of doomed passengers looking out windows. And today, a new stone honors those dead 75 years ago this month.
FORMER PARKS EPISODE 1: A ROLLER COASTER AS HIGH AS THE SKY IN HAZLETON PA
CLOSED THEME PARKS EPISODE 1: ANGELA PARK
Angela Park had a lot to offer.
Rides and a Roller coaster.. and a pig that ate paper.
Sound familiar?
Towns that dread sundown, tranq edition
Tranq is here.. and everywhere.. heartbreaking and ghoulish videos of people with amputated limbs and skin falling off makes the scenery appear to be more akin to a horror movie than reality.
Post apocalyptic mall retail: The revenge of main street
For those born in the 1980s and beyond, we don’t know much of the amazing main streets that once existed. We see boarded up dilapidated evidence that it was there.. But we only new malls. People pondered if malls would kill main street. They did. Now main street got its revenge.. malls are dying too. Sadly it’s too far gone for main street to even think about a comeback, at least in most places.
Another canary in the Coal Creek Commerce Center
The most recent slide near Home Depot appears to be large enough for concern, but also regulated to only that area at this time. Hopefully it stays that way and all will be fine ..
But nature has a way. And the location where this entire center is built on is historic and also at times always subject to be affected by natural earth changes and weather.