A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[sleepmac]

Central Manor Camp is still there and has an annual week long Bible Conference in the summer. It is between Lancaster, PA and the Susquehanna River, a few miles from where I live.

Dan Weinhold

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Central Manor Camp is still there and has an annual week long Bible Conference in the summer. It is between Lancaster, PA and the Susquehanna River, a few miles from where I live.

I knew where it was, but I was not aware that it had continued on. Seemed a little far for Laughlin to do a set of photos of it - not sure what year they were done, but they are an early set and I've only seen a few of the full set.

[healey36]

Brings to mind Mt. Gretna over in Lebanon County, although I think that was more of an off-shoot from the Chautauqua movement at the turn of the century (1900). I had never heard of the place, but my sister-in-law, a one-time theater director in Philadelphia, spent summers at Mt. Gretna working in their summer theater program. She invited us up on occasion, and I remember the first time I saw the playhouse I was pretty amazed. Built in the 1920s by a guy who clearly was not a structural engineer, it was a circular timber-frame mass featuring columns and buttresses the size of telephone poles...I don't think there was an unobstructed view in the place. It was like watching live theater while looking through a forest.

Anyway, I remember telling The Old Man about it and he said it sounded similar to the one that was at Mountain Lake Park outside of Oakland, Maryland. He did some research and figured out both theaters were built by the same guy. I took him up there to see it, and we spent a couple of hours wandering around the place. The Old Man was a practicing civil engineer, trained as a mechanical engineer, so he was pretty impressed by the builders brute-force approach to building the thing. Two or three years later it collapsed after a massive snowfall. I don't recall what happened to the theater in Mt. Lake Park, but here's a picture of it...the Mt. Gretna version was similar:



I haven't been back up there since they rebuilt, but my understanding is they replaced it with a structure of similar appearance on the original's footprint. Might be worth checking out sometime.

Healey

[J. S. Bach]

I wonder what trolley line that was. It appears to have been well-built.

Trucksville is up above Wilkes-Barre; one of the regional PA trolley books might cover that area?

I do not own any of those. I really only have two rail-specific books; one a book on the WB&A and the other is on the EBT.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder what trolley line that was. It appears to have been well-built.

Trucksville is up above Wilkes-Barre; one of the regional PA trolley books might cover that area?

I do not own any of those. I really only have two rail-specific books; one a book on the WB&A and the other is on the EBT.

There is a whole set of them - I think I only have the one that pertains to those lines in and around the Chambersburg area.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The 1908 Bloomsburg Football Team

[rogruth]

College level? I assume.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

College level? I assume.

Yes. Bloomsburg College

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

It looks so typical. What railroad? CV?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No idea what RR is was/is - not CVRR!

[rex desilets]

According to infallible Wikipedia, PRR.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

According to infallible Wikipedia, PRR.

Thought it might have been one of the Pittsburgh lines..........but PRR,

[rogruth]

The station does have a PRR look, sort of.