Description
Discover Brookville, Pennsylvania, a charming town captured in this vintage postcard showing Main Street at the intersection of US 322, State Routes 28 & 36. The image showcases brick buildings, parked cars, and an American flag, depicting a quintessential 1960s American town. This color photo by Richard C. Mater, postmarked October 7, 1974, shows the starting point of an Allegheny train ride.
Front Text (cleaned):
BROOKVILLE BANK & TRUST CO.
BROOKVILLE-MERVILLE, PA
HENDERSON'S
NO TURN
DEMANDS
AR
Back Text (cleaned):
MAIN STREET in Brookville, Pa., at the intersection of U.S. 322 and State Routes 28 & 36, just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 80).
County seat of Jefferson County, Brookville, also "Gateway" to Cook Forest and Clear Creek State Parks.
OCT 07
Color photo by Richard C. Mater
Hi,
10-6-74
This is where we started early this a.m. on the Allegheny train ride. Will get back about 7:30 p.m.
PRAY
FOR
PEACE
Oymuns and Picks, first timers. The Chamberlains and some folks from Son T6928 and Richfield. At one place they hit camera nuts off trains and replayed on the engines—pictures twice. Sunny day. From
