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York World War II USO—Part Two

Posted on August 28, 2011 by june lloyd

Here’s more from the 1943 York USO flier I mentioned in my last post. The statistics of services the York USO had provided, just up to September 1943, are pretty impressive. See below: 7,400 Service Men Guests at YORK USO … Continue reading →

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Yorkers Do More than Just Go to the Movies

Posted on December 5, 2008 by june lloyd

I had such a good time researching what movies local people were watching while they were just coming out of the Great Depression in 1938 that I neglected to check on the other forms of public entertainment available to them. … Continue reading →

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York PA Had Lots of Nineteenth-Century Culture

Posted on June 2, 2008 by june lloyd

York County, Pennsylvania wasn’t just about farmers and merchants and trying to win a lottery. Click here for previous post on lotteries. For example, in 1826 a multi-talented young woman was in town to teach both the French language and … Continue reading →

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