While preparing for our next exhibit, Downtown: Then and Now, I came across this picture in our photograph collection. Harry Samuel Nash and Store Clerk, Haberdashery Store, HSMC Photographs Collection According to the back of the photograph, it depicts Harry Samuel Nash and a store clerk in front of Nash’s Haberdashery Store in Ambler. The photograph… Read More »Ambler Opera and Theater
This week we received two items that had me nostalgic for … February. They were handbills for local theaters. Remember theater? Remember going out and doing things?
At 8am on the morning of September 11, 1952, a man knocked on the back door of the Hill family’s home on Joshua Road. Mrs. Elizabeth Hill answered the door. The man there asked if her husband was home. When she said he was not, the man waved to his two companions who appeared from… Read More »Desperate hours in Whitemarsh
Any plans for the weekend? Maybe you’re thinking of taking in a movie. In early and mid-century Norristown, you had to be sure to see that movie on Saturday because movie theaters were closed on Sundays by law.