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And he went on to upset Dewey. One of our greatest presidents.
I’m here because of the Backrooms video series on Youtube by Kane Pixels in his latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSWUEmJDglw
I bought a receipt on Ebay from Stichter’s, dated 1922. Here is the image link (can’t upload for some reason):…
Alexa, Today September 24th I finally started to get caught up with my internet sites etc. I just want tell…
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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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