YorksPast started with a post on July 26, 2012. A few days ago, on July 26, 2014, I began the third year of sharing a hodgepodge of explorations of York’s Past. The posts totaled 472 during those first two years; averaging slightly more than four and one-half posts per week.
Last week I wrote about Vulcan Technology in Pullman’s Electrically Controlled Gasoline Automobile. In that post, I noted the Harrisburg Auto Show of 1914 also included five motorcycle makes: Harley-Davidson, Henderson, Indian, Thor and Yale. Reader Rick Wall wanted to see any of the motorcycles pictured in the 1914
Motor Vehicles at the 1914 Harrisburg Auto Show This ad for the 1914 Pullman Model 6-46A appeared in the Harrisburg Auto Show edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph. The Fifth Annual Harrisburg Auto Show opened the evening of March 14, 1914, in the Arena-Rex Building at Third and Delaware Streets. The
Originally a three-dimensional wall sculpture was envisioned for an empty foyer space on the top floor of YORK’s new Headquarters in 1969. Salvaging Creativity probably would have got the job, if they existed back then; after all, they use many discarded YORK compressor parts in their creations, as seen along
Last year I took this photo of an old Ford “Ghost Sign” in York City. The sign is high on the west wall of the original location of Carl Beasley Ford along West Market Street opposite Carlisle Avenue. The best view is looking east from West Mason Avenue where it
Some automobile owners of York and York County met April 25, 1906. They formed “The Automobile Association of York County.” This organization is not to be confused with AAA (American Automobile Association), which established a chapter in York County twenty years later in 1926. The Automobile Association of York County