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.
SKOOKY ‘TINGS’ EPISPODE 3
A shotgun fired through a window of the home of Susan Mummey on March 17, 1934. She was 63 when she died from the blast.
You thought Salem was bad!?
Welcome to Ringtown!!
40 years later: We wonder now, as Frackville’s Lehigh Ave descends into ruins, and a brand new building that was supposed to house a major distribution center remains unclaimed, was the Schuylkill Mall worth it? Was this mall, this shining fabled building on a hill, worth the price of admission?
Halloween 2020 ..
Halloween 2009.
Halloween 1918
Covid-19
Swine flu
Spanish flu
History repeating during the scary season
Did the October 1918 Bloomsburg Spanish Flu surge get affected by the Big Bloomsburg Fair the same month?
MAN CAN MAKE NOTHING THAT NATURE CAN’T DESTROY. That was what one of the first ever pieces of graffiti on Centralia’s now famed Graffiti Highway said over a decade ago with this wild tourist adventure began.. And now, with a raging pandemic and outrage over thousands of visitors weekly to the site, it’s over. Nature … Read moreGoodbye Graffiti Brick Road: The life and times of Route 61 in Centralia
According to the REPUBLICAN, curious onlookers even drove right onto the golf course as they tried to get a look at the burned down Country Club structure… new golf balls were even stolen.. It was quickly decided to rebuild! By October 1970, Draco Development created a new structure.. and from that point a new history..
These are the big three.. but they don’t end there.. There are countless properties like these..
So what do we do?
Where do we go from here?
Are these eyesores just going to stay where they are? Remain as they were..? relics of a time gone, and no changes coming to change then, reestablish them, or raze them?
In the case of the Ashland PA Christmas tree, perhaps we can look to that tree as a good thing.. after all it could be worse!
On December 3, 1986, fierce winds that rolled through the area actually blew down the town Christmas tree. One hundred of the light globes got damaged as well.
