Early Theaters

Early Theaters

…boards, and more to the site. That inventory did not include stage equipment, hardware, water pipe, and other building necessities. The brick building required 800 tons of steel for the…

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Oil City Trains

Oil City Trains

…nearly two dozen trains, freight or passenger, stopped in Oil City each day during the oil boom heyday. The last passenger train out of Oil City was in June 1953

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Oil City Aces

Oil City Aces

…County resident drew international headlines in 1953 when he fled his native Poland while flying a new MIG-15 Russian jet enroute to sanctuary in the U.S. Frank E. Jarecki, a…

The Jewish Community

The Jewish Community

…Services were conducted mostly in Yiddish. As the congregation grew, the meeting site was changed to the second floor of the Lamberton Bank Building at Seneca and Sycamore. Again, the…

Parochial Schools

Parochial Schools

…that site. It housed four rooms to accommodate students in all grades. Students at the St. Joseph Academy, the forerunner of what would become St. Joseph High School, are shown…

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