Mega Hometown Pc Score! Jersey Shore, Pa. Content!

Post Card Lot I won on eBay this morning! These are the seller's images but I got these for a STEAL! I cant believe I won these for $23.00! They usually go for between $5.00 & $15.00+ so I'm thrilled as most ALL I do not own AND they're postally used! The Rail Road bridge PC is selling unused for $20.00 and up so I made out like a postal history bandit!



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ILS, That is really cool to get a great deal on home town stuff. I'm just starting to collect precancels for my home town and get really excited when I get one. Dan

Look who is excited and happy once again! That down in the doldrums feeling didn't last long. Nice score.

Yup then you know the feeling then! I noticed that other than them being totally awesome that they also sort of chronicle the C.D.S.'s of VILAS. It goes from VILAS to VILAS STATION -VILAS STATION JERSEY SHORE to just JERSEY SHORE. That in itself was absolutely more than worth the money to me! Looks like most, if not all, are too or from the same person/family so there is that history aspect too as well as the beautiful images of a hometown that I have never seen although have lived there almost my entire life! Just fascinating and I'm SUPER DUPER EXCITED to get these in my mail box!! I'm rather curious to see wt1's response because I bet he'll see the importance of these probably more-so than I of their historical importance.

Bill, no it certainly didn't did it? I think that I just needed a good old fashioned postal history fix! ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm back baby! lol

Bill, while I'm thinking of it I'll get that box of stamps and other stuff off to you hopefully by Wednesday.

I managed to get better images from the seller and I copied them and described what they depict below. Click on each image for a much larger view!

Jersey Shore Post Cards:

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Allegheny Street Now the Bank and apartment buildings. This pic is from the 30's or 40's.


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Now the B.P.O.E. (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) Building or as we like to say -The Best People On Earth! lol -and bar/dining hall but then a sanitarium and was also used as a Tuberculosis hospital circa 1914. This building is said to be truly haunted.that is if you go for that type of thing- Who knows maybe it is?


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The old Broad Street School building and before that an old Jail house! - now a retirement apartments.


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A view of S.Main Street.


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Another view of S.Main Street.


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Corner of Allegheny Street and Main St. Now mostly all gone. This is one of my favorite Post Cards as there is an old "Stanley Steamer" car (steam powered car) in the road. Must have been an Aichenbaugh or Bubb family member to be able to afford one of those! Just an educated guess but I bet I'm not far off!


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A view from up on "the bluff" looking down on "Long Island" notice there is NO main street yet! That's the Gamble's Farm in the foreground.


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This is the Walnut Street Christian School. Still in operation today!


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This is an old NYC/HRR trolly bridge over Pine Creek near the "head" of the river where Pine Creek and the Susquehanna merge!

I like the 4th? one up from the bottom that shows a "steamer" or steam powered car. Most probably a Stanley Steamer! Man I can't wait to get these...maybe today they'll show up?

The Wikipedia article on Stanley Steamer is exceptionally good, and Google Images for Stanley Steamers are mainly close-up color pictures. You are given the choice to select your "Stanley," select the car or you get a thousand pics of a Stanley Steemer carpet-cleaning truck LOL LOL.

I remember hearing from my aunt, a hospital librarian, that many tuberculosis hospitals have a reputation as "haunted" because a dying patient's last tortured breath, the "death rattle," was truly terrifying and scared the ---- out of everyone nearby except the most experienced doctors and nurses.

I can tell it's a steamer (a model with a condenser) because of the design and because the lack of the billowing smoke, although that part is iffy at best, It's almost definitely a steamer. They was known in this area because of the wealth from both the "old money" from the logging industry and the "new money" from the NYC-HRR erecting shops and rail yard. Hope that helps!

I absolutely know there are "ghosts" however I'm not a ghost hunter simply because I believe it's dangerous to mess wit that stuff. Just saying.

A Stanley Steam Car image quite similar to the steamer in the image:




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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:S...team_car.jpg