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Berks County Christmas – Day 6 – Penn Street
Read more: Berks County Christmas – Day 6 – Penn StreetSixth Day of Christmas – Light snowfall on a decorated Penn Street in the 1940s. Pictured is both Whitner’s and Pomeroy’s Department stores.
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Berks County Christmas – Day 5 – 4th and Penn
Read more: Berks County Christmas – Day 5 – 4th and PennFifth Day of Christmas – Looking west down toward 4th and Penn Street in the 1950s. Happy shoppers walk around downtown looking for the perfect Christmas gift. The American House building is on the left in the distance.
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Berks County Christmas – Day 4 – Whitner’s Department Store
Read more: Berks County Christmas – Day 4 – Whitner’s Department StoreFourth Day of Christmas – Whitner’s Department Store, pictured in 1972 in typical Christmas decor. Did you do your christmas shopping at Whitner’s?
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Berks County Christmas – Day 3 – 5th and Penn
Read more: Berks County Christmas – Day 3 – 5th and PennThird Day of Christmas – 5th and Penn Street Christmas tree circa 1970s in front of Farmer’s National Bank building and the Colonial Trust Company building.
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Berks County Christmas – Day 2 – Snow Scene
Read more: Berks County Christmas – Day 2 – Snow SceneSecond Day of Christmas – a snow scene, downtown Reading looking toward the east side of 5th and Penn. Whitners Department Store, Farr’s Boot Shop, amongst other stores pictured in the background.
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Berks County Christmas – Day 1 – Center Square
Read more: Berks County Christmas – Day 1 – Center SquareHappy December 1st! Over the course of the next 25 days, we are going to take a trip back in time to old Penn Street Christmas scenes. Check back every day now through Christmas to see a new picture. Fifth and Penn, the town Christmas…
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Quick Clean Carsonia
Read more: Quick Clean CarsoniaPictured is the Quick Clean Laundromat on 747 Carsonia Ave in Mount Penn in the 1960s. It is still currently a laundromat and goes by “Jakes Coin Laundry“. Jake’s is a chain of laundromat’s all over Berks and Lehigh Counties since 1995.
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Dutch Colony Motor Inn
Read more: Dutch Colony Motor InnThe Dutch Colony Motor Inn once sat on route 422 in Exeter Township. It began operations in 1964 by Erna and R. Harding “Breity” Breithaupt. Breity Breithaupt was an aviation pioneer and owned Reading Aviation Service at Reading Regional Airport. A few years after opening they added…
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Moore’s Diner & Queen City
Read more: Moore’s Diner & Queen CityIn the 1930’s and ’40s, Walter J. “Bill” Moore operated Moore’s Restaurant chain in Reading. He opened the first location in 1937 at the present site of Reading’s post office. The post office was constructed only two years later in 1939, in which he moved…
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Rosedale Knitting Mill
Read more: Rosedale Knitting MillRosedale Knitting Mill was once Berks County’s third largest knitting mill, behind Berkshire and Textile. It was opened in 1914 as a manufacturer of men and women’s stockings by a man named William C. Bitting. By 1921, Rosedale employed nearly 3,000 people who settled close to…
