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unusual facts about Allentown, PA



Allentown Cardinals

The Cardinals played at Fairview Field until 1948, when they moved into the new Breadon Field, a steel and concrete stadium that seated 5,000 fans, which was located just north of the city in Whitehall Township.

Allentown Railroad

On April 13, 1854, the charters of both the Allentown and the A&PC railroads were amended to allow them to merge with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, then building down through Allentown towards Easton (across the river from Phillipsburg).

The Allentown Railroad was a rail line proposed in the 1850s to connect the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Allentown with the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line across the Allegheny Mountains.

Allentown Red Sox

Owned by Joe Buzas, the team played for three seasons at Max Hess Stadium (formerly Breadon Field), owned by Max Hess, Jr., owner of the Allentown Hess Brothers department store.

Allentown Symphony Orchestra

Emmy-nominated Donald Voorhees, noted conductor of the The Bell Telephone Hour and Cavalcade of America radio and television show orchestras, served as the music director of the Allentown Symphony for over thirty years (1951 to 1983).

Allentown, New York

Allentown, Buffalo, New York, a neighborhood in the city of Buffalo in Erie County, New York

American Parkway

The roadway follows the Jordan Creek in a northeasterly direction, passing immediately east of the R.J. Corman Railroad's’s Allentown Line.

Belvidere and Delaware River Railway

Commercial agreements also provide a connection with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPRS) at Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Branchburg, New Jersey

Also within driving distance are Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE, formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport) near Allentown, Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport in New York, as well as the Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton and Princeton in Mercer County.

Clinton, New Jersey

Trans-Bridge Lines offers buses on a route that provides service from Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan and New York City-area airports at a stop at the park-and-ride on Route 31 in Clinton.

Dragon Coaster

Dragon Coaster (Dorney Park), built by Zamperla, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom near Allentown, Pennsylvania

Eighth Street Bridge

Albertus L. Meyers Bridge, also known as Eighth Street Bridge, in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Exeter, Pennsylvania

In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.

Flexlink

Headquartered in Göteborg, Sweden, FlexLink has manufacturing, production and engineering facilities in Allentown (USA), Plewiska (Poland) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Gertrude Alderfer

At 17 age, she attended an AAGPBL tryout with about 200 girls in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Howard J. Buss

Howard J. Buss (born January 6, 1951 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Interstate League

This circuit, which began as Class C and was upgraded to Class B in 1940, typically had teams in Allentown, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Sunbury, all in Pennsylvania; Hagerstown, Maryland; Trenton, New Jersey; and Wilmington, Delaware.

Jared Isaacman

Jared Isaacman is the founder and CEO of United Bank Card, Inc. (UBC), a payment processing organization based in Allentown, PA.

John Westbrook Hornbeck

Hornbeck was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress and served until his death in Allentown in 1848.

Lehigh Street

Lehigh Street is one of several major Allentown-area exits off Interstate 78, which runs from the Holland Tunnel and New York City in the east to the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area in the west.

Lehigh Valley Phantoms

The Phantoms will be based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, playing home games in Allentown's new downtown arena, the PPL Center.

Liberty Bell Trail

The tram route was named by the company for the Liberty Bell because a branch of it followed Bethlehem Pike, the road along which the bell was transported in October 1777 when it was being moved from Philadelphia to Northamptontown (now Allentown) for safekeeping shortly before the British occupation of Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War.

Lower West Side, Buffalo, New York

On the east Allentown with its historic district which ends approximately at Plymouth Avenue.

Martin Luther Stoever

In 1862 the presidency of Girard College, Philadelphia, was offered to him, and in 1869 the professorship of Latin in Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, but he declined both.

Mechanicsburg High School Marching Band

On November 16, 2008 at J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, PA, the band performed their show "Above the Clouds" and won their fourth straight Group 3 TOB ACC title with a score of 97.35.

Mélanie Hahnemann

She was given a diploma from John Helfrich (1795-1852)'s Allentown Academy of The Homeopathic Healing Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Montana Southern Railway

Completed on November 1, 1919, the railroad ran westward from a connection with the Oregon Short Line Railroad at Divide, following the Big Hole River upstream to the town of Wise River, Montana, also known as Allentown.

Morning Call

The Morning Call a newspaper in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

Mountain Top, Pennsylvania

Consequently, even though regional railroads are much diminished in scope and influence, Mountain Top yard, once used as a marshaling yard at the top of the Ashley Planes funicular (cable driven) railway, is still an important regional element of the transportation infrastructure connecting Allentown and Philadelphia with points north and west via trackage to several yards in New York State.

Paul Felix Schmidt

After this, he and his wife Eva moved to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he made contributions to electrochemistry and anodic oxidation of silicon, was expert in neutron activation analysis, and published many papers, till his retirement in 1982.

Pennsylvania Route 563

The road runs through wooded areas and passes over the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-476), PA 563 turns east and heads into the community of Tylersport, where it passes homes and businesses as it crosses Allentown Road.

Roy Rogers Restaurants

An exception is the Allentown service plaza on the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, which serves its customers in the typical fast-food fashion since it reopened in May 2008 (the entire service plaza had been rebuilt).

SEPTA diesel service

For commuters travelling from Allentown/Bethlehem and Philadelphia, it proved faster to drive to the small village of Center Valley instead and board trains there (now the site of the yet-unbuilt Saucon Rail Trail).

Solomon DeLong

Solomon DeLong (born February 8, 1849, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania-February 2, 1925, Allentown, Pennsylvania) was a Pennsylvania German language writer and journalist.

Trexler

Harry Clay Trexler (1854–1933), American industrialist who built a business empire in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Upper Saucon has three north-to-south numbered routes: 309, 145, and 378. In Lanark, 309 comes north from Philadelphia via Quakertown to join Interstate 78 coming east from New York City and cross the mountain to Allentown.

Upper West Side, Buffalo, New York

Adjacent neighborhoods include the Black Rock Neighborhood to the north, the Lower West Side and Allentown neighborhoods to the South, and the Elmwood Village to the east.

WAEB

WAEB-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

Warlord of Kayan

The film tells the story of Sayed Jafar Naderi, the son of an Afghan Ismaili leader, who used to be a member of a hippie motorcycle gang in Allentown, Pennsylvania and later became a provincial governor and chief of a 12,000 man private army in Afghanistan.

WBPH-TV

WBPH-TV maintains offices and studio facilities in Allentown, and its transmitter is located on South Mountain in Allentown, Pennsylvania (specifically Salisbury Township in the Lehigh Valley region of the state).

WFMZ

WFMZ-TV, a television station (channel 46 digital) licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

WPPZ-FM

The station has always been short-spaced due to adjacent channel interference from WMGM in Atlantic City, WXCY in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and WNNJ in Newton, New Jersey (all located on 103.7 FM), WAEB-FM in Allentown and WNNK in Harrisburg (both located on 104.1 FM), as well as WRFF (104.5 FM), and co-channel interference from WRCN on Long Island and WFAS-FM in Bronxville, New York.

WXKW

WSAN 1470 kHz, held the WXKW calls from 1985 to 1995, licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania

WAEB-FM 104.1 MHz, held the WXKW calls from the 1970s to 1985, licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania


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