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Prior to its construction, the only bridges connecting Center City Allentown and South Allentown were Lehigh Street and the 8th Street bridges, although the single-lane 19th century stone arch Schreibers Bridge (1828, rehabilitated in 1920) provided west end access to southwest Allentown via Lehigh Parkway East. Original bridges were metal ...
A&P. Perhaps one of the best-known defunct grocery store chains, A&P, or the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, traces its roots back to 1859, beginning as a mail-order tea business in New York ...
Yocco's Hot Dogs is a regionally famous hot dog and cheesesteak establishment with five restaurants, each located in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.Yocco's was founded in 1922 by Theodore Iacocca, uncle of Lee Iacocca.
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area ...
James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef and World's Best Pastry Chef winner Dominique Ansel has no shortage of culinary accolades; from his eponymous bakery and famed cronut -- a trademarked croissant ...
The store operated successfully for decades, and was the first of the Allentown department stores to open a branch at Whitehall Mall in Whitehall Township, an Allentown suburb, in 1966. In 1970, Donald Vollmer, then president of the store, purchased Bears Department Store in York, Pennsylvania and renamed it Zollinger-Harned, making it the ...
Sam’s Club Announces Sweet Return Of Beloved Bakery Item. Kait Hanson. February 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM. Getty Images. It’s baaaack! Earlier this week, Sam’s Club announced the return of their ...
The street dates back to 1762, when Allentown's founder, William Allen, included it as one of the first of several streets to be constructed in the city. [ 1 ] The street is named for James Hamilton , who served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1745 to 1746 and two terms as deputy governor of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania from 1759 ...