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Downtown York tried to keep those ’50s shoppers
“CAROUSEL PLACED IN SQUARE—Police Commissioner William J. Bynane and Patrolman Kenneth L. Lauer look over a carousel which was placed in Continental square yesterday by Downtown York, Inc., to provide...
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Sniffles dolls and toy machine guns at York’s Joe the Motorist Friend store.
Fellow blogger Joan Concilio discovered York countians have lots of memories of Joe the Motorists’ Friend stores, and she has shared them in several of her blog posts. The regional chain sold tires,...
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York’s Joe the Motorist Friend was the place to buy Lionel trains
The full page ad from Joe the Motorist Friend (see below) is almost exclusively for Lionel trains, a specialty of the Joe’s stores. The address at the bottom of this ad and the toy ad in my last post,...
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Greetings from the York Gazette and Daily Boys’ and Girls’ Newspaper
Boys’ and Girls’ Newspaper Birthday Cards You might remember the daily Boys’ and Girls’ Newspaper page in the Gazette and Daily. The page had puzzles, riddles, jokes and crafts, but the highlights were...
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Gazette and Daily birthday club, part 2
Here is more on the Gazette and Daily’s Boys’ and Girls’ Newspaper and the birthday club. Erma Henry Raver recently shared some of the birthday and Christmas cards shown here and in my previous post....
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York County Easter egg hunts 70 years ago.
I know Easter was several months ago, but I was just researching other subjects on the 1940s newspaper microfilms at York County Heritage Trust, and I came across many stories about Easter egg hunts...
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Camp Security on a vintage Christmas Card
Looking through the antique and vintage Christmas cards at York County Heritage Trust Library and Archives yesterday, I found one with a Camp Security theme. It had a printed signature of Mr. and Mrs....
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Christmastime in Shrewsbury, 1889
Here are some more local news items, this time from Shrewsbury in December 1889. This time I didn’t even have to go to the newspaper microfilms at York County Heritage Trust myself. Friend, relative...
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James Smith, York County’s Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Drawing of James Smith by Lewis Miller, who would have known Smith when Miller was a child In honor of those brave patriots who put their life on the line signing the Declaration of Independence, my...
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Lee Anderson’s Shrewsbury printing business
Box of Leander Christmas cards My recent York Sunday News column was on the leading 20th century poet, Lee Anderson, a resident of southern York County. In addition, I also shared some of Anderson’s...
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