Results tagged “Voni B. Grimes Gym” from York Town Square

The City Market loomed large over the southeastern part of York. One reader believes its location is often misidentified. Background posts: York's Penn Street Farmers Market, nearing 150 years old, seeks to replant for new customers and York-area picture book not your typical coffee table publication and York County ... 'A smorgasbord of architectural styles'.

"All the time I read about the location of the City Market it is always at a different spot," a York reader wrote in an e-mail.

I wrote back to say that my recent identification of the now-demolished York covered market's location having been to the rear of the Voni B. Grimes Gym was accurate. I was trying to locate the former site of the Dempwolf-designed market relative to an existing landmark.

The e-mailer said he would send photos showing where the market was located.

This he did... .

Children enjoy the playground equipment at Campus Park in York. Campus Park is one of 23 city parks. It takes its name from York Collegiate Institute, a forerunner of York College, that occupied the South Duke Street and College Avenue site until 1962. That's Voni B. Grimes Gym to the left, formerly the school's gymnasium. College Avenue takes its name from the collegiate institute. Background posts: Richard Nixon's visit to his namesake park sparks memories, Growing off-peak trolley ridership: Build a park and Great Balls of Fire, Memorial Park to spin back to 50s.

The York Daily Record/Sunday News has published a neat Web map with informational windows showing York's 23 parks.

It even includes the city's newest park - Renaissance Park - at the corner of East Princess and Prospect streets in the Old Towne East neighbhorhood.

The following is a story accompanying the map telling about the new park:

A former York market house is hidden in plain view.

Dreamwrights, a local theater group, is quite correctly touting rehab plans for their large brick playhouse on Carlisle Avenue.

For years, I've wondered about the original use of that beautiful building... .