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Correction: Last day was Sept 17,1997. Sorry!
do you know what store occupies the Woolworth space today?
I worked at the Woolworth Distribution Center in Denver,Pa for 23 years. Our last day was Sept 17,1998. Woolco closed…
Fascinating story, Alexa… and Happy Anniversary! (You are close to my anniversary date of 8-8-88)
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my step mother and father lived down the street from the apt house
Former home of Kurtz Pharmacy and Bob’s Sandwich shop.
Kurtz Drug Store was my husband’s grandfather’s (John R Kurtz, Pharmacist) business for many years.
Kurtz Drug Store was there in the 40 s and 50 s.
Wow,
I used to live above in one of the apartments when Bob’s sandwich shop was down stairs,
Bob as my landlord. 🙂
I lived there for about 2-3 years before I moved out to Galen hall in Wernersville Pa.
I loved my apartment and my landlord was a cool guy. The building gotten a facelift due to a kitchen fire next to my apartment. When bob closed up he notified us that he was selling the building my rent was going to go up by the new owners. I was paying $500.00 a month for a two bed room apartment. It was a nice apartment.
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