Category Archives: Bad weather

Last picture showplace: Haar’s Drive-in opening for season

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Jim McClure

Moviegoers get ready for the show at Haar’s Drive-In as shown in this York Daily Record/Sunday News file photo from 2005. Haar’s, York County’s last operating drive-in movie theater, will convert to digital to keep up with a movie industry that is moving away from 35-mm film. The Dillsburg-area drive-in opens this weekend with ‘Ironman 3.’

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Can you ID the two girls dwarfed by the piled snow? Linked in to York County history, 3/26/13

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Jim McClure

Auntie Anne/Central Market’s birthday/Famed Civil War latrine These unidentified girls probably never forgot this moment when the plowed and shoveled snow in York was almost twice their height in place. The location of this photograph, from York City’s 225th anniversary … Continue reading →

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A tow plow? One can only hope it never comes your way: Linked in to York County history, 3/7/13

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers the doomed Avalong barn, Bowen & McLaughlin’s start in York, Gettysburg tourism, and a truck body reportedly made in York

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Glen Rock storms: ‘I think the snows of years ago were much deeper’

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Jim McClure

Glen Rock’s Main Street at the railroad tracks is stacked with snow. This circa 1912 photograph comes courtesy of John Hufnagel of the Glen Rock Historic Preservation Society. Also of interest: . Otts Hufnagel writes about Glen Rock’s first mill, … Continue reading →

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York, Pa., winters: I ‘do remember several large snow falls when I was a child’ – Linked in to history, 2/14/13

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers local birdwatching; the town of Nicodemus, Kan.; bad weather in York’s past and St. Paul Lutheran Church’s 250th anniversary

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Did you weather these memorable blizzards in York County’s and nation’s past?

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Jim McClure

Check out these memorable blizzards, bad weather events from York County and the nation’s past

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How to get your photographs before thousands of eyes: Linked in to York County history, Nov. 3, 2012

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jim McClure

Yorktownsquare.com covers a longtime York County stained-glass window market, Avalong Restaurant, Camp Security and a source for penny postcards.

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5 memorable photographs from Sandy’s trip through York County

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Jim McClure

York Daily Record/Sunday News photographers produced dozens of photos and videos documenting Sandy’s trip through York County. Here are 4 of the most memorable.