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I can remember watching 2001 A Space Odyssey and Double Trouble starring Elvis Presley at the Mansfield Drive-In in Mansfield, Ct. the summer of 1969. I was just a kid but I was blown away by 2001 and remember that night well.

The Pittsburgh mob had control over the city. Gambling was precedent everywhere

Was a kid in backseat. Saw original "Magnificent 7" movie in the Bel-Air drive-in theater, Cicero, Illinois

I would take the bus from Northeast Reading in the 1970's to downtown to shop. It was a big deal and took all day.

Wonderful! My Dad was a manager at the Abe Lincoln in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Thank you for this! Wish it was a lot longer!

never got to Reading something like Fonda, did go to Flemington every sat one summer i spent in New jersey!

Reading used to be a damn fine place to live before the cockroaches moved in and turned it into a slum.

Looking forward to renovations in 2025 and the night gates, keeping the riftraft off of skyline drive at night and reducing people dumping trash. We are all hopeful this will stop the trash dumping on Mt. Penn as the MTB’ers of Mt. Penn, we can’t continue to keep up with the clean up! Unfortunate people destroy things. The Pagoda is a treasure, as are the trails on Mt. Penn as a huge money generating tourism attraction for Reading as a key MTB destination! Wooooooo 👍👍🇺🇸🤘😎🤘🇺🇸

It was magical. The elevator doors opened up and your eyes lit up with excitement. We didn't have much back then so it made our lives extra special. I'm 76 now and remember those days fondly. Merry Christmas to All.

Typical Berks , tear it down

READING!!!! My first race was on 9/8/1974!! Been going ever since! Fifty years!!❤❤😊😊

Had a sportsman car, drove in warm ups with the modifieds once, long time ago, but I still race today JK

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Amazing

I’ve never understood why the area has degraded… well actually we all know why

It’s a shame that it’s gone

And dont forget the Crystal Palace!!

Meow

You people had the greatest dirt track in the country.. right there in your back yard

Reading WAS such a beautiful city in the 60s I can remember going to a lot of those down town stores !! Such a shame now what a shame !

Wow that was beautiful we came here in 1974 I was just a year old and someone else buildings I remember seeing as a little kid still in the late 70s early 80s ready with such a great place to grow up great food also😢

Times when Reading was a city like snow and now is so different hard to live there when you drive on the streets still can see the beautiful buildings. But is not the same as the old times

Currently it's a zombie,

LONG LIVE THE MEMORIES OF READING PENNSYLVANIA AND BERKS COUNTY FROM DECADES AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM FROM MICHIGAN AND DIDN'T LAND HERE UNTIL 30 YEARS AGO IN APRIL 1994, AND I WANT OUT OF HERE VERY BADLY, BUT I HAVE AN EXTREMELY SOFT SPOT FOR WHAT THIS AREA WAS MANY YEARS AGO, NOT FOR WHAT IT IS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You wish the footage was longer, but then you're just thankful someone took the time to film at all!

Anyone have a bead on the year this was made? @27:40 it mentions 1971, so it has to be after that. From the looks of the video quality it looks like it's from the 1890's.

That glimpse of Grbac's 47 there at the end is poignant.

Lived there in the 1960's and still love the memories. In those days you could say, "I live in Reading" with pride.

My ma would take me and my brother for school shopping…well before the invasion 😔

Grew up in Reading in the 50s and 60s. What a time we had. Miss those days

Got to Reading several times in '77-79. Our Dad would drive us the 2+hour ride to see the greats of modified racing. Got to see the best of the best in Brightbill, Chamberlin, Tobias, Buzzie and more at the mecca of dirt modified racing. Still miss that track, but so thankful we were able to be there.

I like to READ in READING

Al must ve had an incredible amount of energy to keep that up all day

Golab .... Minker ... Wonder what tribe those guys were from...

Un the California valley, we had a sportsman class. They looked similar. They had banana wings on top

I WANT THAT READING BEER SIGN

Thank you

thanks

100 years later fire stone is still right there

What a dump. Always been corrupt and mismanaged. Glad I got out of that dehumanizing cesspool!

This actually brought me to tears. I grew up in the 100 block of S 8th St in the 50's. Seeing GIG Novelty and everything else made me long for those times again. Great pictures. Hope you have more. Thank you for this...

Wow great video, some of the names in that video , Tobias , Old bones Dave Knisel , Buzzie , Brightbill , Chamberland , Jack Johnson , Billy Osmun , and the list goes on . Lindy why did you let such a remarkable track go , the same as the Nazerth Nationals on the Mile track did so much work to get it redone and one 200 lap race and done , crazy !

Werent there that long sadly.

I ❤️ READING, PA.

Very nostalgic.

I am dumbfounded at the level of destruction to downtown Reading during the '70's. They didn't do this to Lancaster! There are so many beautiful places in Lancaster. Was Reading the "redheaded stepchild" of Pennsylvania cities? I was born and lived in Reading until we moved to York in 1958. I remember the Pagoda, the lovely museum grounds where Mom would take us to feed the ducks. I remember going shopping at the wonderful markets on Penn Street, Pomeroys, having lunches with .25 cent sundaes at Woolworth's. Whoever was responsible for this carnage should be tarred and feathered. So Sad!

Great pictures. very enjoyable to view. The two pictures of Wernersville are backward. If you reflect them onto a mirror they are then correct.

Not just reading pa Is whole entirely country been running by criminals and crooks politicians then don't give dam about better country with there stupid rules and laws all they care about putting money in their pockets

Amazing how that council member Kusminski and that other guy act they they knew nothing. BULLSHIT !!!! They were up to their ears in it I would bet.

It looks like this film was run through a telecine machine with a vidicon tube that is suffering severe gauzzing problems which explains the steady patches of color blobs.