Results tagged “Greater York in Action” from York Town Square

AMF York produced the Ski-Daddler, a power sled, which the company indicated was popular at that time. "Ski-Daddler is used for racing, exploring, carries skis and is a great asset to all 'round winter sports fun," the York (Pa.) Chamber of Commerce's "Greater York in Action" reported. Other posts of interest: York, Pa. made big, heavy things - and was immensely proud of it and AMF-Harley in York, by the numbers and AMP's and AMF's alphabet soup spilled in same York County town .

Harley-Davidson is examing four locations as possible relocation sites for its motorcycle production lines from York.

Those sites will provide an option for the company to consider alongside keeping the plant in York, a decision expected before year's end.

Nervous York community leaders are wise in talking about a Plan B. What if Harley moves? ... .

That would be devastating, of course.

Newswanger's, seen in this drawing from "Greater York in Action," was a landmark shoe store on York's Continental Square and typical of the small retail shops that prospered in the downtown in the middle part of the 20th century. These shops have largely disappeared, as columnist Gordon Freireich writes below. Background posts: Buildings reveal a bit about York and Landmark Futer Bros. building in new hands.

"Greater York in Action," a 1968 publication, provides insight into the order of downtown York's decline as a retail hub.

The book, published at the time of York's race riots in 1968 but before the deadly riots of 1969, suggests that major retailers were expanding into the growing suburbs even before the unrest... .

Marta VanZandt, co-owner of Morgan Jewelers, shows off a York Safe and Lock strongbox in the downtown York business. The store is closing, the third such shop to close in the past two years. Background posts: Buildings reveal a bit about York and York Safe restoration 'once in lifetime' project.

As late as 1968, the book "Greater York in Action," boasted that Futer Bros. Jewelers, on York's Continental Square, housed two floors of quality gifts.

That business was located in the Hartman Building, for years the tallest building west of the Susquehanna River. The building had recently been chopped from six stories to three, but what it lost in height, it had gained in appearance, the York Area Chamber of Commerce book stated.

Futer Bros., in York's downtown since 1932, closed that store in 2006... .

Springettsbury's York Valley Inn is one of those landmarks that always spawns memories. Swimming lessons. Fine dining. Anniversary parties. The motel complex, as seen in this drawing from "Greater York in Action," kicked off in 1958 and closed in the 1990s. Background post: Forgotten York Valley Inn may be rediscovered.

Gordon Freireich's York Sunday News column (see below) points to the magnitude of the recently fire-damaged York Valley Inn in its day.

"The York Valley Inn was such a big deal because - well, it was big deal," he wrote.

The size of the resort and convention center went beyond it's 165-rooms.

According to "Greater York in Action," it sported: ...