The top ten past coal region restaurants that are still missed today
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Tag: history
We didn’t start the fire! The $40,000 club house
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..
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Let’s blouse the teens and get Zozzled for 2020!
New years eve 1919 .. party cloudy in Pottsville .. according to weather records, it turned blustery and much colder
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Yes, there WAS a war on Christmas. President Grant ended it.
All Christmas activities, including dancing, seasonal plays, games, singing carols, cheerful celebration and especially drinking were banned by the Puritan-dominated Parliament of
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The ghosts of Black Fridays past
Black Friday just ain’t what it used to be.
Sure the UK DAILY MAIL picked up on a story from Allentown PA of people fighting in the Lehigh Valley Mall in front of a FOREVER 21 store.. But besides that event, very few other like it made headlines..
Christmas, it would seem, has lost its gusto.. it lost that faint scent of materialism…
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October 5, 1999 to now: Dried petals lay beneath the sand
October 5, 1999: The new Cardinal Brennan gym is dedicated.. 20 years later: The gym is now property of North Schuylkill…
All of those tears, hugs.. and long embraces between friends in front of that gymnasium in the summer of 99 are just history… memories are the flowers… forward in the sands of time..