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unusual facts about Luna Park, Scranton



Albany Senators

The International League incarnation is today now known as the Moosic, Pennsylvania based Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees.

Albert Jay Nock

He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (U.S.), to a father who was both a steelworker and an Episcopal priest, and he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Amedeo Obici

In 1924, Amedeo and Louise Obici moved to Virginia from Scranton and purchased the 253 acre (1 km²) Bay Point Farm located in the co on a bluff overlooking the Nansemond River.

Andrés Calamaro

In 2005 he released El Regreso (The Return), a compilation of the live recordings from his appearance in the Luna Park Stadium earlier that year.

Bais Moshe

Yeshivath Beth Moshe is an Orthodox Jewish Seminary located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Basil Takach

Thirteen deaneries were created with the following seats: New York City, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Scranton, Hazleton, Johnstown, Punxsutawney, Pittsburgh, Homestead, Uniontown, Youngstown, Cleveland, and Chicago.

Basketball at the 1951 Pan American Games

The Men's Basketball Tournament at the 1951 Pan American Games was held in the Luna Park Arena from February 28 to March 8, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bradford Louryk

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and educated at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, he is best known for his collaboratively generated solo performance work, which often incorporates multimedia elements and gender reversal in the exploration of its subject matter.

Brooks-Scanlon Corporation 1

It was moved to Walpole, New Hampshire and then, across the Connecticut River, to Bellows Falls, Vermont and displayed at Steamtown, USA, where it stayed until the Blount collection was relocated to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

CGR 3rd Class 2-6-0T

Before the outbreak of the South African War in October 1899, four tank locomotives were ordered by the Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM) in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) from Dickson Manufacturing Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through the agency of Arthur Koppel.

Charles A. Spano, Jr.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and a teacher by profession, he is married to Mary Rose McAndrew, with whom he has four children.

Charles Robert Connell

Connell was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served until his death in Scranton.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Cities in Flight

A Life for the Stars (1962) is a bildungsroman describing the adventures of a sixteen-year-old farm boy Chris, co-opted into an Earth city (Scranton, Pennsylvania) which has begun travelling in space.

Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project

The documentary was first premiered at the regional National History Day competition in March 2006 at Pennsylvania State University Scranton/Wilkes-Barre campus, where it received first place for a senior group documentary.

D. Emmert Brumbaugh

He was a student of the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1914 he became interested in banking at Claysburg, Pennsylvania.

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 1151 class

Another was the Interstate Express (Train 1301), received from the Reading Railroad/Jersey Central at Taylor Junction, near Scranton, and hauled to Binghamton, New York.

One assignment was the early morning Merchants Express (Train 26) from Scranton to Hoboken, New Jersey, returning in the late afternoon hauling the Scrantonian (Train 11).

Farley's Eatery and Pub

Actor Steve Carell, who portrays Michael Scott in the NBC sitcom, allegedly told reporters he would personally fly to Scranton to "cut the ribbon" if Farley's were to place a "Michael Scott Burger" on their menu.

Gerry McNamara

The doll was featured on the Scranton-set television show The Office, placed on the desk of the character of Dwight Schrute.

Hughie Jennings

While driving a car given to him by admirers, Jennings' car overturned while crossing a bridge over the Lehigh River near Gouldsboro, 23 miles southeast of Scranton.

Isaac J. Lansing

He later served as pastor of the Green Ridge Presbyterian Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Jermyn, Texas

Named for the son of Scranton, Pennsylvania coal magnate Joseph Jermyn, the community was established as headquarters for local mining.

Jerrell Powe

Powe returned to Waynesboro to retake courses, attended Penn Foster Career School, a prep school in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and took correspondence courses in 2006.

Joseph A. Scranton

Scranton was born in Madison, Connecticut, but when he was a boy, his family moved to Pennsylvania, settling in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania, the eventual site of the city of Scranton, which was named after the family.

Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad

Beginning in Scranton in Lackawanna County, the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg line followed the west shore of the Lackawanna River through the Wyoming Valley, passing through Old Forge on the way to Duryea in Luzerne County.

Luna Park, Arlington

The Arlington Luna Park was one of several that Ingersoll built and ran in 1905 and 1906 (including Indianola Park in Columbus, Ohio, Rocky Glen Park near Moosic, Pennsylvania, and Luna Parks in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Scranton, and Mexico City).

Luna Park, Berlin

At that time, the shopping district Kurfürstendamm was a forest path where on Sundays families took carriages from the nearby Grunewald train station (now Halensee) and drove in the Grunewald forest.

Luna Park, Pittsburgh

Remnants of the entertainment empire remain, from Mexico City (the park is now called Luna Loca) to Melbourne to Athens (now called Ta Aidonakia).

Lyn Ott

Ott was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1926 to Irene and Lester Ott (vice president of W. T. Grant).

Mark D. Miller

Mark was born in Scranton, Kansas, the son of Amos B. Miller and Mary Martindale Miller.

Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania

The Mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Scranton.

Mike Munchak

Each year the tournament is held the last week of June at The Country Club of Scranton in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.

Old Boston, Pennsylvania

WVIA-TV, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre PBS affiliate, is located in Old Boston, which uses the Pittston zip code of 18640.

Olyphant, Pennsylvania

Private schools in other towns though receive Olyphant students, among them La Salle Academy in Jessup (K-8), Bishop O'Hara High School in Dunmore and Scranton Preparatory School in Scranton.

Patrick O'Boyle

Patrick O'Boyle was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Michael and Mary (née Muldoon) O'Boyle, who were Irish immigrants.

Paul Boyton

Paul Boyton's Water Chutes was permanently closed in 1908, a casualty of increased competition from White City amusement parks, Electric Parks, and Luna Parks that arose in the dozen-plus years after the World's Columbian Exposition.

Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Rail Authority

From Scranton Northeast to the city of Carbondale on lines of the former Delaware and Hudson Railway's Pennsylvania Branch, from Scranton Southeast into Monroe County on lines of the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, towards New Jersey and the New York City market, and from Scranton Southwest to Montage Mountain, Moosic on lines of the former Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad third-rail interurban streetcar line.

Pilarz

Scott Pilarz, American Jesuit priest, President of Marquette University, former President of the University of Scranton

Scranton Army Ammunition Plant

The mission of the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) is to manufacture 105 mm and 155 mm-diameter projectile bodies, including the M795, 120 mm family of projectiles, M107, M804, M485, MK64-2, and the M110.

South African Class NG2 0-4-2T

Between 1897 and 1901 several 0-4-2ST narrow gauge saddle tank steam locomotives, built by Dickson Manufacturing Company of Scranton in Pennsylvania shortly before it merged with seven other manufacturing firms to form the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901, were delivered to various gold mines on the Witwatersrand by Arthur Koppel, acting as importing agents.

The Shoppes at Montage

Prizm Asset Management Company (owner of The Mall at Steamtown in Scranton) and the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (owner of Wyoming Valley Mall in Wilkes-Barre and Viewmont Mall in Dickson City) have expressed both economic and environmental concerns about the new mall.

University of Scranton Buildings and Landmarks

Campion Hall is named in honor of Saint Edmund Campion, S.J. Many of the Jesuits teach or hold administrative positions at the University of Scranton or at the nearby Scranton Preparatory School, a local Jesuit high school.

University of Scranton Press

Some of the University of Scranton Press' most recent publications included a biography of Edith Stein and a book exploring the lives of early 20th Century European immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.

William Scranton III

As Lieutenant Governor, Scranton hired Nat Goldhaber, a member of the Transcendental Meditation movement, as his top aide in Harrisburg.

In 1992, Scranton donated $1,000 to the campaign of his friend John Hagelin, the Pittsburgh-born presidential candidate for the Transcendental Meditation-backed Natural Law Party.


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