Results tagged “1969” from York Town Square

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This image reflects themes from the upcoming documentary "Home," a documentary on York,Pa., and its new baseball stadium, Sovereign Bank Stadium. The film will premier in York at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 25 at York College, followed by a question-and-answer session with producer Brian Plow. Background posts: York had Brooks Robinson statue. Where's Baltimore's, Season 2 of York's long comeback campaign and New baseball diamond serves as York cornerstone.

Filmmaker Brian Plow is bringing together the wide-ranging topics of baseball, economic development and those displaced by York's new stadium in an upcoming documentary.

The producer, a Towson University film professor, spent hours in York researching these themes.

York College's Humanities Film Series will be the vehicle to introduce the documentary called "Home." ...

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The East Market Street parking garage opened to downtown York applause in 1969. It was built to meet a need for parking in the eastern section of the downtown. Background posts: York art museum (YOMA) touted as 'triple gateway', In search of proof that York Fair is nation's oldest and York's Central Market sells steak ... and sizzle.


If the authority overseeing York's East Market Street garage is going to spend $3 million to renovate the 40-year-old structure, it should also preserve the York Fair mural on its side.

I make that point in my York Sunday News column (8/24/08).

Several of the 18 large-scale panels in the Murals of York series are deteriorating. They simply weren't made to last forever, but to see them fall apart within a decade of their painting seems a bit early.

The mural is only part of the reason the East Market Street garage is a useful artifact of history, as I suggest in the column, 'Market Street Garage a symbol of a changing city' :



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