Copy of facts published on Facebook and previously in the Upper Merion Township e-Newsletter.
If you were looking for something to do over the June 24-25th weekend in King of Prussia back in 1967, you would read in the Friday, June 23, 1967 paper that the fifth annual All American Scored Championship Cat Show was coming to the George Washington Motor Lodge. Now if hanging out with 300 cats from the U.S. and Canada
With all the new apartments being built in the township, it is fun to look back at some of the early ones. In August of 1962, the Continental Arms Apartments was scheduled to open as the first elevator type apartment house in the King of Prussia-Valley Forge Area. Rents in 1963 were advertised as starting at $125 – a month
Here is an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, October 16, 1994. It includes a few quotes from the late local, award winning, historian Ed Dybicz. Young Mr. Dybicz placed first in the annual PA Newspaper Publishers Association content for high school reporters in 1941. He received a first place cash prize of $20 for his reportorial work in the
Check out this September 25, 1971, Philadelphia Inquirer ad for Gulph Mills Village Apartments located at 649 S. Henderson Road. Did you know three buildings that once belonged to the Henderson family are still standing on the Gulph Mills Village Apartments complex? A former Henderson home serves as their office building. This restored home was built about 1812. The original