Altoona memories scrapbook

the long version

Contains 100 Chapters of life in Altoona, Pennsylvania from the 1940's and 1950's to current events. Altoona Little League, old local Dance Bands, Altoona High School musicals, local businesses and confectionary stores and reviews of life in Fairview, Logantown and Llyswen. Old neighborhood playgrounds and who used to hang out at them. You start reading this book and you don't want to stop. A 2nd Edition is now in print with over 400 pages. Copies are available for the readers review free of charge at the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg, PA. and the Altoona Public Library in Altoona, PA. The Author has taken one-hundred Chapters, each Chapter being a complete story or subject in itself. Then he takes that personal family story or workplace happening and ties it into well-known individuals or events that took place with lots of photos from newspaper coverage etc. This is not your run-of-the-mill, dry historical book of a bygone age. It's the Author, giving detailed explanations of how it was when you got out of bed and went out into the real world during the WWII years and the 1950's .