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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Disorderly at the town park/pool.

An interesting story in The Daily Notes from 75 years ago(1938) regarding teenage disorderly conduct at the town park/pool.
I find the article interesting in many ways, including how the town Burgess, at the time, Harry L Cook handled the situation. How about you, what are your thoughts?

The Daily Notes - July 2, 1938

Pennsylvania Rail Road Train Schedule -1922

The Canonsburg Daily Notes a good source to keep you informed and on-time for travel on the Pennsylvania Rail Road Train. 

Only a thirty five minute trip to Washington, Pa and one hour ten minutes to Pittsburgh.

Daily Notes - Saturday, Feb. 18, 1922

The Canonsburg Town Park begins


Canonsburg Town Park starts to take shape...  grateful to the town leaders of the day for their foresight.
Can anyone imagine a Canonsburg without the "Town Park"?

The Daily Notes - May 17 1921  

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Manuel Pihakis

Four time WPIAL and three time PIAA State Champ wrestling Champion at Canonsburg High School



Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Canonsburg Armory Youth Center

This is a great video on the planning to convert the Canonsburg Armory into a Youth Center... 

Saving the Canonsburg Armory and creating a first class Youth Center is a vision that all Canonsburg Friends should readily support! 
Please consider how YOU may get involved! )

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Canonsburg Friends - Enjoyed World Wide

Map of Viewers of Canonsburg Friends by Country

Graph of most popular countries among blog viewers
Ten most popular countries among Canonsburg Friends blog viewers
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United States
83480
Germany
1970
Russia
1742
Ukraine
1408
France
1177
United Kingdom
874
Canada
715
Netherlands
577
Slovenia
524
Latvia
517

Monday, March 10, 2014

The Four Coins... "A Broken Promise" from the movie Jamboree


This a wonderful, quality video of the original Four Coins. The vocal group as seen here in the video consisted of George Mahramas, Jimmy Gregorakis, George Mantalis, and Michael Mahramas. They were all of Greek heritage from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Enjoy this clip from the 1957 movie, Jamboree. 



Sunday, March 9, 2014

Synagogues of Central & Western Pennsylvania


Dick Garboski shared Julian Preisler's post with you.
Julian Preisler
As research and work continues on my book of photos of Synagogues of Central & Western Pennsylvania, I have decided to include photos of some of the synagogues in the region that have been demolished over the years. Many of the small mill towns surrounding Pittsburgh once had thriving Jewish Communities. Some former synagogues still stand used as churches, theaters, etc. Here is an old newspaper photo from 1927 when the Tree of Life Synagogue in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania was dedicated.

It is one of the few images of the synagogue that remain. As some of you may know, Canonsburg was famous for its pottery manufacturing and the dishes they produced were sold everywhere. We, in fact, use an old 1950's set of "Temporama" from Canonsburg. The synagogue was sold in the 1960's and eventually demolished in 1980. 
Today, they are no Jewish residents in town. 
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A grand view of Canonsburg Lake with an ominous looking summer sky.



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