Lancaster's southeast quadrant, the seventh ward, shown with members of Lancaster City Council and Redevelopment Authority tour the area to be cleared in the 1960s. Mayor George Coe, with paper in paper in pocket, leads the group. W. Hensel Brown, Jr. is on the sidewalk at left.
1963 Spelling Bee winner Stewart Straw of Clearfield, Pa. with another contestant. Contestants came from senior centers in 11 Pennsylvania communities. The Spelling Bee was sponsored by the Happy Hours Club of the Lancaster Recreation Commission.
First Row: Harry E. Canter, Jo Knotwell, June Ament, Suzanne Flory, Mrs. Mary Shaw, Jane Moseman, Mrs Jean Johnson, Sarah Hill, Marylin Neff, Gloria Gershenow
Second Row: James E. Maurey, Marylin Cool, Judy Geitner, Dorothy Simmers, Crit Herr, Pricilla Weaver, Allean Stevenson, Ruth Gordon, Mary Lee Angle, Mrs. Marquerite Kreider, Phil Bomberger
Third Row: Walter Kreider, Robert Foster, Eric Herr, Matt Gegg, Gary Kirchner, Wendell Hower, George Hainley, Henry Hoerner, William Carmitchell, Maurice Frontz, Gerald Miller, Joseph Hawkins, William Hutchinson, Ed Matterer
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Photograph- Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Photograph- Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
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Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
