In the past I have written about the Livingston Club and that era of Allentown's heyday. The leaders of the period (except Max Hess) would meet at the Livingston Club, and decide Allentown's future. The group consisted of John Leh, Harvey Farr, and Donald Miller. As a common venture, they owned and operated Park&Shop. The Livingston Club existed because in addition to the oligarchy, there was a hundred other successful business men in center city.
Move ahead fifty plus years, and now there is a new oligarchy, J. B. Reilly, Lee Butz and Mark Jaindl, but no surrounding business men. Tomorrow night J. B. Reilly is being honored at the library for his contributions to downtown. That must be some sort of insider rich man's joke. We the taxpayers are financing a $billion dollars of private property(Center City Reality LLC) for him, and he is being honored for his contribution to Allentown?
ADDENDUM: This post is in no way meant to vilify these men, neither in the heyday past, or now. They shaped the town, then and now. Their enterprise was rewarded with great wealth.
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