As a blogger, at the moment, I need a rest from those bureaucracies which I find so exasperating, and perhaps visa versa. I suppose it w...

Those coming here today looking for a story about sloppy civic leadership will be disappointed. This post is literally about butchers, mo...

Up to the late 1960's, Union Street, between the Jordan Creek and Lehigh River, was  crossed by numerous train tracks. In addition to t...

In a previous post about my father's meat market, Allentown Meat Packing,  I give a brief history of the business. There were not many...

My grandfather lived on the corner of Jordan and Chew, and butchered in a small barn behind the house. He would deliver by horse and wagon...

Born Johnny Lakatosh in 1902, Allentown Johnny Leonard fought between 1920 and 1928. Allentown became part of his fight name, to identify h...

This weekend there was a disruption in the Syrian community. When the protests first began in Syria, there was a demonstration of support...

Old timers have noticed that the contractor's building on Hanover Avenue transformed into a community center for Overlook Park. But on...

In 1953 you could escape the crowds on Hamilton Street by walking down beyond the third department store, Zollinger Harned, to the 500 Blo...