Camp Howard on Mount Penn
Few people know that a Boy Scout Camp once existed on Mount Penn. Camp Howard was a 26-acre campsite [...]
Reading Railroad: Coal Age Empire
Decades ago, Reading was a mighty manufacturing town where the Reading Railroad — once the world's largest company, now [...]
Shikellamy Boy Scout Reservation
Camping has always been essential to Scouting, and was embraced by even the earliest Boy Scouts of Berks and [...]
Fifth and Spring School
The Fifth and Spring school house was an 8-room building erected in 1900. The school was adjacent to Church [...]
Pomeroy’s Department Store, Reading, PA
In the 1870s, three young men, salesmen for Brown, Thomson and McWhirter, at Hartford, Conn., had a dream. They [...]
Park School, Reading, PA
The Park School was formerly located at the intersection of Perkiomen Avenue with 12th and Franklin Streets. The building [...]
The Embassy Theatre, Reading, PA
The Embassy theatre was constructed on the properties owned by Ad. and Samuel Kutz and E. I. Kaufmann, 739-749 [...]
Reading/Berks Drive-in Theaters: A History
Drive-in theaters were hugely popular after World War II and, on special summer occasions featured all-night shows. Among its [...]
Rio Theatre, Schuylkill Avenue, Reading, PA
Ben Zerr opened the Olivet Theatre at 647 Schuylkill Ave., near Oley, on Thanksgiving Day 1911. The initial attraction [...]
May Day at Charles S. Foos Elementary School in 1956
In the late 1800s, migrants and immigrants from around the world were flocking to U.S. cities to find jobs [...]
Holiday Inn, 2nd and Penn Streets, Reading, PA
Early in 1972 reports were circulating in regard to construction of a new motel-hotel on the site where not [...]
West Lawn Elementary School
The West Lawn Elementary School was located at the corner of Riegel and Nobles Street. The handsome building, erected [...]
