We talk about dead malls way too much. But in looking at some articles, it’s weird to think that many people reading them now never shopped at the Schuylkill Mall..
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Open up your VHS vault.. I know you have ABA parade tapes out there somewhere
So we face the reality.. the ABA parade (and so many traditions) won’t happen again. So let’s find any VHS evidence of these amazing times and preserve them!
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A very Skooky (Die Hard?) Christmas: Your turn
This is how YOU responded to us about movies, cartoons, songs and traditions.. Merry Christmas to all and to all a Skook night.
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DRIVE-IN 2021 EPISODE 7: PORN PURVEYORS AND THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN DRIVE-INs
Some little vestiges of the past that remain are immensely beautiful.. The run down signs. Overgrown landscapes.. All of the little reminders of past summer nights with open air convertible filling their autos with the open air flicker of a movie projector in the middle of a dark field..
Here are some lesser known locations now overgrown by nature or paved over by landscapers.
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DRIVE IN 2021 EPISODE 6: The lustful location: Warm milk at the XXX Pine Grove drive-in
Today.. Pine Grove Drive-In theater was located at 327 Suedberg Road on the site of today’s Providence Place Retirement Center.
The same location that was the scene of criminal probes, jury decisions, and showings of X-rated films so many years before…..
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One of Schuylkill County’s oldest breweries: 87 years in the making!!
Pure Springs Brewery Co existed in Fountain Springs, PA. It was destroyed by fire, and tied in to illegal operations of a brewery, and connected to the Minker and Genelli alcohol crime syndicates.
Pure Springs remains an active corporations even until today.
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