The 1960s and 1970s were marked by the effect of Federal urban renewal programs upon the City. Although it later became fashionable to criticize the effects of the wholesale demolition and, reconstruction that these programs sponsored, there is little doubt that Reading gained [...]
William H. Luden (1859-1949) was the developer of the menthol cough drop and founder of the Luden's company and brand. The son of an immigrant father from the Netherland’s, Luden quit school at the age of 15 and became an apprentice candy maker. [...]
The Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health is taking shape in Wyomissing, with completion set for July. "The hope would be that as students come out here and train out here, they will fall in love with the area and will [...]
In September 1987 Joseph M. Eways, of Mast Management in Wyomissing, proposed the construction of a 20-plus-story ultramodern skyscraper called” The Reading Renaissance Center” at the former site of C. K. Whitner Co. Inc. Department Store. Below: Southwest corner of 5th and Penn [...]
In 1980, The Pennsylvania Crime Commission (PCC) documented the ties to Organized Crime of apparent legitimate cheese and pizza businesses which located in 54 Pennsylvania cities and towns. The report, “The Study of Organized Crime's Infiltration of The Pizza and Cheese Industry,” published [...]
The Penn’s Common area of the city, or “City Park” to the unenlightened, took on a mix of characters during various phases of its development. When much of the city east of the Seventh Street railroad tracks was largely undeveloped for most of [...]
The city adopted its flag in 1898. The flag as it is today was executed by Bailey, Banks & Biddle, of Philadelphia, and was adopted by Councils as the official standard of the city. The flag consists of three vertical stripes, red, white [...]
Egelman’s Park, about 30 acres, along the west side of Hill Road (above Angora Road), was once one of the “beauty spots” of the Reading Park system. It owes its beginnings to Egelman’s Springs, which was once a source of water for the [...]
Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. (“Equus”), one of the nation’s leading real estate investment managers, announced Dec. 28, 2020 the sale of a three-building office and lab portfolio within The Knitting Mills, a 53-acre campus in Wyomissing, PA. The properties were originally part of [...]
One of the most productive residents of the City of Reading during its period of major growth had absolutely nothing to do with business, commerce, or the trades. He was Monsignor George Bornemann, and he served as pastor of St. Paul’s Roman Catholic [...]
