Category: Community
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Bowl-O-Rama
Read more: Bowl-O-RamaBowl-O-Rama opened its doors in 1957; a dream of its five shareholders who bought the land and built the alley on Perkiomen Avenue in Exeter Township. It was home to local bowling leagues, social events and gatherings over the years. There was a bar and grille in the establishment as well as 40 bowling lanes.…
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Berkshire Knitting Mills Cabinet Mystery
Read more: Berkshire Knitting Mills Cabinet MysteryLast week I received an email from a Tara Colton saying she acquired a large cabinet that has “Property of the Berkshire Knitting Mills” stamped on the bottom of it. She is hoping to find out a little more about the cabinet and what it was used for at the knitting mill. She is currently…
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Berks Nostalgia Presents The Defunct Schools of Berks Collection
Read more: Berks Nostalgia Presents The Defunct Schools of Berks CollectionStarting tomorrow, and over the course of the next 9 weeks Berks Nostalgia is going to be publishing articles on each of Berks County’s High Schools that were defunct due to the consolidation of school systems into the larger districts we have come to know today. Most of these schools and the memories that were…
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Living through History
Read more: Living through HistoryWhen I was a kid, learning about history in class, I always wondered if the common people living through the events we were studying had any idea of the significance of what they were living through. How did they feel about it? Were they afraid? To them, it was an uncertain time, but many trudged…