Added January 28th: Peter Pan Week in Mahanoy City. Full pages of the January 24,1925 edition of the Record American. Click the link below to go to the Peter Pan Week edition on the Record American Project Page.
Link: Peter Pan Week
Links to pages on this site:
Record American January 1-7, 1962
Picture Tour of Historical Room
Some Township Scenes:Click on the image to enlarge and/or view the slide show.
Added February 3rd: The February 3, 1922 edition of the Record American. Click the links below to read "today's paper" from 90 years ago. Please support the Record American digitization project.
Added January 23rd: The day Babe Ruth came to Mahanoy City. You've probably heard the stories about the Babe's historic 1923 visit to the West End Stadium. Did he really hit home runs that landed in the Assumption B.V.M. yard or on the church's roof. Check out the Babe Ruth page by clicking on the link below.
Babe Ruth Page
Added January 16th: Video trailers for the four DVD's on sale from the historical society. Now you can preview each video by clicking on the images below. If you wish to purchase a video go to the Fund Raising page for more information. (The still images from these DVDs can now be found in the Arcchives.)
Special thanks to Ron Andruscavage Digital Video Production for making the trailers for each video.
Email: randruscavage@gmail.com
Added January15th: See how Center Street in Mahanoy City has changed over the years. Clicking the link below will take you to the Center Street page where you can view sixty pictures of Mahanoy City's downtown areas over the past 130 years.
Added January 11: He directed almost ninety motion pictures. He won an Academy Award for Best Score. He wrote the music for songs that are being recorded today by artists from jazz to country. And he grew up one block from the Historical Society. Click the link below to go to the Victor Schertzinger page.
Added December 31st: The second of two pictorial souvenir booklets printed in 1912 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Kaier Brewing Company. To view these pictures click on the link below. If you haven't seen the first booklet in the series, it can be found in the Archives.
