Vintage businesses on Selinsgrove Golden Strip (Sunbury, Shamokin: mattress, storage, pine)

[blauskies]

Originally Posted by Funky-Rat

Kinney Shoes was where Aaron's Leasing is now.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ei2Ik5quiI...on+il+1976.jpg

The old elementary school was torn down for Pep Boys, later Super Petz. Weis owned Super Petz and without warning, closed the whole chain down in several states.

Thanks for the reminder on the old Acorn Motel. I bought a car there eons ago. I think it was called Autos Plus. It was a 1987 Dodge Shadow. Good car, but the paint peeled on it. Had it for a number of years. Sold it to someone who stripped it, repainted it, and used it for many more.

I remember Twisters, but we never had good luck there. Either bad food or bad service. We finally gave up. I loved Arthur Treacher's (which was there prior). I miss them. You can find them every now and again. They're still popular where I used to live in Ohio.

It's ironic, but we were coming back from Canton yesterday and passed another former Big Wrangler out on Lycoming Creek Rd. It's being used as a church, of all things (check the street view to see a relatively unchanged BW facade):
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=lycom...ed=0CB8Q8gEwAA

I asked my husband about the Montoursville location (that's now a car lot). He said it was called "Family A-Fare". He'll never forget it because he used to work for a company that was headquartered in Williamsport and they had a meeting there. A whole bunch of them got chicken off the bar that wasn't cooked enough. He saw it right away, but a few of the others got very sick. They gave everyone there free coupons to come back. He never did. What would be the motivation?

Nice picture, that brings back the memories went in there as a kid often back in the day. I know there was a Kinney in the mall but I don't remember if that was Kinney until the Rag Shop moved in or if it was something else?

[seagirl80]

In Shamokin Dam there was an elementary school where Hoss's steak House is now located. There was a motel (Starlight Motel?) where Aldi grocery store is located. The Economic Lodge was called Holiday Inn.

[Dawne]

I was talking to a retired teacher a year or so ago and she said somewhere in Hoss's (maybe she said that front room) there is a picture of the old school and some students and/or teachers. I never remember to look for it when I'm there.

[blauskies]

Originally Posted by seagirl80

In Shamokin Dam there was an elementary school where Hoss's steak House is now located. There was a motel (Starlight Motel?) where Aldi grocery store is located. The Economic Lodge was called Holiday Inn.

It wasn't where Hoss's is that was a baseball field as was much of their parking lot, the school was next to the Church that still stands off of the Old Trail. The land also was lower than the highway back then, they backfilled it and raised it up to be closer to the level of the highway. I use to play baseball there when I was a kid.

The hotel that was where Aldi is now, was called "Susquehanna Motel", it might have been something else toward the end of it's run, but I do not recall if it was?

[richreitz]

There was a steak house behind the laundromat at 4th & Line Streets in Sunbury back in the late 80s-early 90s. Used to go there when our daughters were small. Think it was Big Wrangler. Department of Environmental Protection and an optometrist have offices in the building now.

[richreitz]

I believe that Shooter's Paradise was a little further south than Roy's/Tom's Speed Shop and across the highway. The current off-ramp from the bridge connects with 11-15 about where Shooter's was located.

[richreitz]

Town & Country in Shamokin Dam, PA. Now Tractor Supply. When I was a kid, the store was on N.4th St. in Sunbury, where Expert Tire is now located. And right next door, Sunbury Motors (Ford) is in the building formerly occupied by Shoemaker Chevrolet (which became H.C. Boyer Chevrolet out on Rt. 890, which became Performance Chevrolet, which went out of business). Building is now a trade school.

[Funky-Rat]

Originally Posted by richreitz

There was a steak house behind the laundromat at 4th & Line Streets in Sunbury back in the late 80s-early 90s. Used to go there when our daughters were small. Think it was Big Wrangler. Department of Environmental Protection and an optometrist have offices in the building now.

Yes, that was Big Wrangler. I drove past another former location on the way to Tamaqua a few months ago. They're kind-of hard to miss.

I remember the Susquehanna Motel. Right before they closed we put my in-laws up there for the night so they wouldn't have to drive back to Allentown in the snow. There was no heat. They said it was horrible.

[Funky-Rat]

Originally Posted by Dawne

I was talking to a retired teacher a year or so ago and she said somewhere in Hoss's (maybe she said that front room) there is a picture of the old school and some students and/or teachers. I never remember to look for it when I'm there.

It used to be near the door to go out, but it may have moved. I knew someone in that photo. It has a bunch of kids holding a sign that says the name of the school and the years it was open. It's a neat photo.

[Clover Branch]

Does anyone have any pics of the old Shell Diner on RTS 11 & 15 in Selingsgrove? My great uncle and aunt (Warren and Stella Townsend ) owned it for many years in the 50s and 60s, and we lost any old pics in a flood years ago.