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Very sad. Even 15 years ago, the last time I was in Johnstown, it was a lot more lively than this. And see my comments in Part I about Slapshot being filmed here.

A lot of great buildings, lets hope they can be saved!

 

Great series! Thanks.

Wonderful series!

Great shots, this pic though puts some of those crappy 60's facades to shame, probably the worst I have ever seen.

 

Very good series here, rob.  Johnstown is quite photogenic.  And it is nice to see they apparenlty still have a viable white ethnic community there, too, to support those urban churches.  I really like these small Pennsylvania cities that are posted here and at those other urban forums, or at least what I see on the pix.

 

I saw a pix of a Straub Beer truck in your threads..i think this brewrey is in St Marys, near where your gas engine show was.  It was one of the locals that survived the big megabrewrey mergers and mass marketing and is now somewhat popular with beer aficionados.

 

I was pretty suprised to see that incline in operation as this type of tranist is all but gone in the US.  I think Pittsburgh is the only other place left that has these? 

 

Also, about the Johnstown Flood.  There was a very good documentary on PBS a few years ago on it, shown on the American Experience show, narrated by David McCullough...apparently he had some sort of family connections to Johnstown.

 

 

There's one other incline that I know of, besides Pittsburgh's two.

 

The Fenelon Place Elevator, in Dubuque, Iowa, is very steep and has small cabins. I rode it in 1995, but don't think I have any still photos. I'll have to dig out the video and see if it's still good. If it is, I can probably grab some frames from it.