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The Camelot Inn

Posted on May 7, 2020July 15, 2020
Camelot Inn

The Camelot Inn was located at 665 Fritztown Road in Sinking Spring. According to a recent listing for the property, the Camelot Inn was built in 1925 as a speakeasy.

image from the property listing

AmericanTom.com, a dive bar review website, wrote the following in 2002 to describe the Camelot Inn:

[01-05-02] The Camelot is a time warp bar – the dying breed of tavern that makes you think that you went back in time as soon as you pass through the doors.… Read Full Article

Harvey’s Hamburgers

Posted on June 14, 2018July 1, 2020

Harvey’s Hamburgers was located on the 1500 block of Lancaster Ave in Shillington, where Friendly’s parking lot now is. I could find no additional information about when this place opened or closed, so if you know, please leave a comment.

Harvey's Hamburgers

Way before all the well known “Icons’ in the hamburger business like “MacDonalds”, “Burger King”, and others came to Berks County, many locally owned fast food establishments were here for years.

… Read Full Article

Red Building – Textile Knitting Mill / Vanity Fair

Posted on June 6, 2018July 15, 2020

The old red building was just demolished the other day, to make room for parking for what will be UGI’s new headquarters. Now is as good a time as any to take a look at it’s history, which encompasses over 100 years of use.

What we currently know as the “Red Building” was the very original building for Berkshire Knitting Mills, built in 1908.… Read Full Article

Shillington Shopping Center

Posted on April 13, 2018July 15, 2020

The Shillington Shopping Center has been around for many decades. It is located along Lancaster Avenue in Shillington. Pictured below is the Food Fair and W. T. Grant Co. stores from the 1950s. Did you ever shop here?

Shillington Shopping Center
in the 50s
Shillington Shopping Center
Current day

The only thing that appears the remain the same in the past 60 years are the entrance lights to the parking lot.… Read Full Article

The Pagoda’s Outbuilding

Posted on April 5, 2018July 6, 2020

Completed in 1908 at a cost of $50,000, this pagoda was intended to be the hotel/restaurant centerpiece of a luxury resort. When plans for the rest of the resort were abandoned, the 7-story wooden building on 10 acres of land was donated to Reading in 1911. It is now part of the Mount Penn Reserve, 1,595 acres of municipally-owned land. – Source

The Pagoda's Outbuilding

There was originally another building built just down from the Pagoda in the same style, and was know as an “Outbuilding”.… Read Full Article

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