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Did you have a pen pal as a kid? I had some; my favorite was “Sabrina” in Sardinia, Italy, but I had them from all over the place.<\/p>\n

Something neat that I’ve realized recently? Having this blog has brought me, more or less, some pen pals of a different sort!<\/p>\n

Today’s mail comes from reader Yvonne Leiphart<\/b> of West Manchester Township. I’ve talked about Yvonne before<\/a>, and her letters always make my day. So when I received one in which she, too, made the “pen pal” connection… well, that was cool!<\/p>\n

In Yvonne’s most recent letter, she writes: “I think I finally figured out why I can’t remember what i had for lunch two days ago. My brain is too full of useless information from when I was young that there isn’t room for anything new. Even writing this letter takes me back to my teenage years when I had pen pals from around the world. Guess that was the internet of my day. And speaking of teenagers, I know you had ‘Melvin’s’<\/a> as a teenage hangout in your column. But I wonder if you know there were others that I haven’t seen in your column … Does anyone remember ‘The Town Talk’ from the ’40s? It was located at the intersection of Salem Ave., W. Princess and Hartley sts. (Salem Square).”<\/p>\n

She continues, “There was the ‘Cherry Top’ on S. Queen St. and the ‘Orange Top’ on Lincoln Highway West and a short way beyond that on the Lincoln Highway was the ‘White Swan,’<\/a> which had an outdoor barbecue pit in the parking lot. I remember during the ‘polio epidemic’ of the ’40s that was the only place teens could go because it was a drive-in and you didn’t have to get out of your car. (That is if you knew someone who had a car. My uncle would load us up and go.)”<\/p>\n

Then, Yvonne writes, “Also I thought of another downtown store that i missed. ‘The Golden Rule’ department store on E. Market St.”<\/p>\n

Yvonne ended her letter with perhaps the only statement I can disagree with: “Guess I shouldn’t write any more letters.” NO WAY! To all of my regular writes, your pen pal Joan and all our readers say, “Keep writing!” We love hearing your memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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