Below are Aerials shots from 1971, showing what Fifth street highway/Route 61/Kutztown Road looked like just north of the city. A few of the notable structures are the Reading Fairgrounds, Bellevue Diner, and Gethsemane Cemetery. The Warren Street Bypass was also noticeably not extended past 5th street at the time of this photo. Five years after this photo, the bypass was connected up to Pricetown Road, as it is still today.
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Some notable places:
intersection of 5th Street and Bellevue Ave; the Bellevue DinerMuhlenberg School Campus. You can see the current high school building was under construction, and opened in 1972.The Fairgrounds
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