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Columnist still has memories of a bustling downtown York business district
Newswanger’s, seen in this drawing from “Greater York in Action,” was a landmark shoe store on York’s Continental Square and typical of the small retail shops that prospered in the downtown in the...
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York, Pa. in the 50s: Just try to resist studying this memory-tugging photograph
A post-World War II baby boom caused families to spill from York city to form suburbs. The entry of Caterpillar and other industries in the early 1950s also attracted families to that part of...
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Just try to resist studying this memory-tugging Sears photograph, Part II
This area view, courtesy of J. David Allen & Son Photography and from Buchart-Horn Inc./BASCO Associates’ files, shows the York County Shopping Center in the late 1950s. Background posts: Before...
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Building No. 11 in Springettsbury Township. What was it then and what is it now?
This aerial view shows the York County Shopping Center in the late 1950s. Check out building No. 11, still standing today. What was it built for originally? And what...
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How a bird saw the York Mall/York County Shopping Center in 1970
This J. David Allen photograph appearing in a 1970 Gazette and Daily calendar looks west to the point where Market Street (Old Lincoln Highway, Route 462), intersects with Interstate 83. That’s the...
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About shopping for food and Edsels in Springettsbury Township: Linked in with...
Many York countians will remember this is York County Shopping Center sign. Stephen Smith of York, Pa., provided this image, circa 1962. He noted that you can see part of Food Fair, one of the...
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How a bird saw the York Mall/York County Shopping Center in 1971
This is the view of the York Mall/York County Shopping Center area of Springettsbury Township in 1971, courtesy of York County, Pa., resident Stephen H. Smith. Stephen helps us understands what’s where...
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John F. Kennedy lunched on Lincoln Woods Inn’s expensive fare in 1960
Stephen H. Smith supplied this portion of a 1960s daily insert menu from The Lincoln Woods Inn. The eatery stood back from East Market across from the York County Shopping Center. It is known as Fat...
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Among recent celebrity visitors, Brooks Robinson topped them all: Linked in...
Neat stuff below: York Fair/York County Shopping Center/’A Day in the Sun’ When celebrities visit York, there’s a good chance that history will remember them. Consider all the U.S. presidents who have...
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Abe Lincoln post leads the pack in yorktownsquare.com’s Top 10 most viewed of...
This cartoon, found in Jim Lewin’s and P.J. Huff’s book, “Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War,” was featured in the No. 1 post on Yorktownsquare.com in 2012. That post tells about...
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5 photos show life around York County, Pa. – then & now
Linked in/Neat stuff: York Twinning/Remember these old York photos? 1. The wrath of February’s ice and snowstorms shut down York County’s rail trail. York County, Pa., parks crews are seen here...
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York Galleria 25 years old: Can you believe it?
Linked in/Neat stuff: Gettysburg Address quiz/Remembering Sears Roebuck At 25 (can you believe it?) and facing competition of all sorts, the York Galleria continues to change, as this thoughtful York,...
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How York County, Pa., changes, in four easy views
Springettsbury Township’s new firehall began the way all good projects do. With a concept and a felt need to modernize. That idea turned into an architectural drawing for a site – about a mile east of...
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