During the summer of 1952, Lehigh Valley Transit rode and pulled it's trolley stock over to Bethlehem Steel, to be chopped up and fed to the blast furnaces. The furnaces themselves ceased operation in 1995, and are now a visual backdrop for young artists, most of whom never saw those flames that lit up that skyline. Allentown will now salvage some architectural items documented on this blog, and begin tearing down it's shopping district, which was serviced by those trolleys. As young toothless athletes from Canada, entertain people from Catasauqua, on the ice maintained by a Philadelphia company, Allentown begins another chapter in it's history of cannibalism.
photo from August 1952, showing last run on St. John Street to Bethlehem Steel
reprinted from November 2011
Nice article. Almost poetic in a sense. But there is not any poetic justice here. At least until the powers that be get voted out of office. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that the people have within their power at this point so far along in the tragedy.
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