Results tagged “Jim Lewin” from York Town Square

The colorful Valencia, seen here in this circa 1937 postcard, played host to dozens of national acts. Background posts: The bad, and yes, the good of the Great Depression in York County and Valencia Ballroom became cool place during Depression and Spring Garden Band: 'It's like being in the room with history'.

Dave Gladfelder was a regular at Big Band events at the Valencia in the heyday of the Swing era in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

It cost between a quarter and 85 cents to get into the York venue, depending on the prominence of the act. If the name was big enough, admission rose to $1.

Paying a little extra, Gladfelter acquired photos of the stars and stuck around long enough to get their autographs.

He collected about 60 photographs, many of them signed.

The collection of the late David Gladfelter will be up for silent auction during the York Book and Paper Fair on Saturday, April 4, in the York Expo Center.

Photos of the Dorsey brothers, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Woody Herman are included in the collection... .

Northern troops drilled at the York (Pa.) Fairgrounds early in the Civil War. And Confederates camped there when they occupied York in 1863. But the current fairgrounds in the West York area was just a field then. The Civil War-era York Expo Center will be the topic of a mystery talk on Saturday. Background posts: Gettysburg 'Human Interest Stories' scores sequel and Rebels, Yanks to again journey along York's West Market Street.

The whereabouts of the York Fairgrounds will be one of my topics in a talk on Saturday, April 5, at the York Emporium's A Day of Mystery.

I'll cover 10 mysteries or questions rising from York County's involvement in the Civil War in a slideshow starting at 12:30 p.m.

Jim Lewin, the owner, lists me as a pundit, writer and historian. I had to look up what a pundit is, and it sounds OK... .

Harper Collins is publishing Jim Lewin's and P.J. Huff's "Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War," in November. This selection shows an 1861 cartoon of Jefferson Davis going off to war, penned by E. Rogers. But see below for a flip view of Davis returning from war... .

So far, The York Emporium has played host to a Millennium Festival, Sci-Fi Saturday and Snake Oil & Other Good-Time Recipes programs.

All this was held among its 500,000-books - and some eight-track tapes.

So when it comes to putting together a Civil War festival, one expects, well, not your everyday presentations.

That's what the public will get from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 22, at the West Market Street store, according to owners Jim Lewin and Pam Farrow. The store sits along the main route taken by rebel troops invading York in late-June 1863.

Here is a tentative partial lineup:

Jim Lewin and Pam Farrow's York Emporium touts 250,000 books.

But they've added two new books for customers to read, the Civil War books: "Witness to the Civil War, First-Hand Accounts from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" and "How to Feed an Army, Recipes and Lore from the Front Lines."

After the former Washington, D.C., residents purchased the Emporium in January, they organized the 19,000-square-foot used book store. The West Market Street store, a former auto dealership, is now easier to browse through or to find what you're looking for if you're on a particular mission.

But leave some time. Its inventory is immense.

Here's a story from the York Daily Record after Lewin and Farrow bought the store early in 2006: