The story of the South Reading Bridge is one of vision, advocacy, and setbacks, spanning decades of urban planning in Reading, Pennsylvania. Conceived as a transformative infrastructure project, the bridge was intended to link the West Shore Bypass with the city center via [...]
The former South of Penn pool, at Seventh and Laurel Streets, site of an old school building, was built in 1930 by voluntary subscriptions of money, materials and service through a subscription drive by the Reading Times Newspaper. The pool was 60 by [...]
The South Reading Market at 548 Bingaman (southwest comer of 6th and Bingaman) was one of the city's most recognized and enduring structures. It was one of a number of "sanitary market houses" erected just before the two Penn Square market buildings closed [...]
