Altoona memories scrapbook
Subtitle: light reading & anecdotes
By: by Herman R. Nagle.
Publisher: Herman R. Nagle
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Altoona, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Altoona (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
First sentence: The cover features a cloudy day view of the Roman Catholic, Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament which has dominated the skyline of Altoona, Pennsylvania since 1926 when construction was initially started.  No one that visits this beautiful Cathedral can forget its interior beauty along with its exterior domination as you enter our little town.
Description: Contains 100 Chapters of life in Altoona, Pennsylvania from the 1940's and 1950's to current events.  Altoona Little League, old local Dance Bands,  Altoona High School musicals, local businesses and confectionary stores and reviews of  life in Fairview, Logantown and Llyswen.  Old neighborhood playgrounds and who used to hang out at them.  You start reading this book and you don't want to stop.  A 2nd Edition is now in print with over 400 pages.  Copies are available for the readers review free of charge at the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg, PA. and the Altoona Public Library in Altoona, PA.  The Author has taken one-hundred Chapters, each Chapter being a complete story or subject in itself.  Then he takes that personal family story or workplace happening and ties it into well-known individuals or events that took place with lots of photos from newspaper coverage etc.  This is not your run-of-the-mill, dry historical book of a bygone age.  It's the Author, giving detailed explanations of how it was when you got out of bed and went out into the real world during the WWII years and the 1950's .
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