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Authored by Society president George Meiser IX |
| Posted 10-07-2003
SIX News-Bits of Reading-Berks historical interest..... ================ ================== ================ ================ ================== ================ 1- Ghost search by Paranormal Assn. at Kutztown - Oct. 11/18/25 2- Strause's Gen. Store, a Fleetwood landmark - Wed., Oct. 15 @ 7:30 3- Mystery Berks one-room schoolhouse. Anyone recognize it? 4- Berks Postcard club's first meeting - Thurs., Oct. 23rd - 7:00 5- Landmark Landis Store Hotel building for sale 6- Kutztown Transit (trolley) Co. history - Wed., Dec. 17 - 7:30 ================= =================== =============== ================= =================== =============== 1- Following through on reports of strange happenings at Kutztown's 1892 Public School building, the Berks County Paranormal Assn. will be investigating---and you may tag along! The first of the investigations is scheduled for Saturday night, Oct. 11th, at 8 p.m. No one under 14 will be allowed. Tag-along fee is $35 and absolutely requires pre-registration. No one will be allowed in the building once the proceedings have begun. To register, call the Berks County Paranormal Assn at 610 944 2112 or email them at berks_paranormal@yahoo.com Want to know more? =============== =============== ================== 2- On Wed. evening, Oct. 15th, Bill Gow will present a program at the Kutztown Area Historical Society featuring Strause's General Store of Fleetwood. History of the landmark will be provided. The store continues to operate. Program begins at 7:30--at Normal Ave. & Whiteoak St. =================== ================ ============== 3- A photo currently up for bid on eBay shows a 1927 view of a Berks one-teacher schoolhouse. Does anyone recognize the building?  If so, email us at gmmix@berskweb.com =================== ================= ============== 4- REMINDER: The very 1st meeting of the Berks County Postcard Club will take place at 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 23rd, at the Fleetwood Historical Society headquarters on Arch St.,in Fleetwood. Park in the rear of the building. The entrance- way, out back, will be illuminated. Dennis Becker, Dave Remaley, Brandon Strasser, and Jay Druckenmiller---the chartering members---will be there to help get this venture underway. For more information, call Dennis at 610-944-9983 or Dave at 610-683-3488. =================== ================== ================ 5- A surprise discovery on eBay is sale of the Landis Store Hotel & Restaurant, a landmark structure. Opening bid: $650,000. The eBay item number is 2350680653 and is advertised as Southern Berks Restaurant!  For the record, Landis Store latterly was in an ancient-looking one-story frame structure on the right side of the hotel building. When the store closed, several decades ago, the frame add-on was removed to make way for a parking lot. The U.S. post office here was established by N. Landis as Landis' Store on Aug. 20, 1853. On Dec. 1, 1894, the postal designation was changed to Landis Store, which closed on Apr. 20, 1956. Your editor can't say exactly when the store closed but he recalls buying a loaf and bread and 1/2-pound of bologna there during the summer of 1961. ===================== =================== =============== 6- If you have an interest in Berks County trolleys, do plan to attend a meeting at the Kutztown Area Historical Society on Wed., Dec. 17th, at 7:30. Jim Schlegel will present a program on the Kutztown Transit co., which has an interesting history and some unusual cars. Kutztown cars ran into 5th and Penn in Reading. ================== gmmix =========== end ============ |
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