Results tagged “York Mall” from York Town Square

A World War II B-17 bomber sits at the York Airport in Thomasville in October 2001. Andy Rusnack, seen here, a World War II veteran, flew in a B-17 exactly like this one shortly before he was sent overseas in 1942. "It sure takes you back," Rusnack said. Background posts: First York Airport's administration building stands today and Just try to resist studying this memory-tugging photograph and U.S. 30 Drag-O-Way, Part III: 'We would watch the dragsters on trailers head for Thomasville'.

A former York countian e-mailed after looking into a query from someone about an aircraft that wrecked near Winterstown or Red Lion some years ago.

"Didn't find that, but ran across this link about the old York Airport," he wrote. "I never knew we had an airport on Roosevelt Ave."

I had written in a past York Town Square post - Museum exhibit brings back early days of high fliers:

This photo, courtesy of J. David Allen & Son, of York, Pa., was taken in the late 1950s. It shows Springettsbury Township's York County Shopping Center in full operation. The shopping center was the first of its type in the York area, and Sears, Roebuck & Co., the large building at right, was the first major retail business to move from York's downtown. PACE Resources Inc./Buchart Horn Inc. used the photo as part of an exhibit at the York Business Expo in 2005. Background posts: Just try to resist studying this memory-tugging photograph, Bury's burger memories far from buried, From top dog and hot dogs to dogfight and dog days in York County, Pa.

Continuing the series of telling York County, Pa.'s, history through images: ... .

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... .

A recent post on this blog explored the coming of the first Cracker Barrel to York County - and Pennsylvania.

The opening of that store in 1994 recognized swelling population growth and proximity to a busy interstate. At that time, the York Township restaurant marked the arrival of a true Big Box store in that part of York County - a store that promised to vacuum up 200 jobs.

But Cracker Barrel's arrival came four years after another first for York County - and Pennsylvania.

The arrival of Wal-Mart.

The retail giant's first Pennsylvania store - 130,000 square feet in all - opened in the York Mall ... .