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I took the tour once.. maybe in the 70's?
It is an old hole. Large enough to be a civil defense shelter for the entire town.
4-5000?
Yeah, that mine was one very deep hole- maybe a mile deep as I recall? It's been a long time. It sure scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, and still gives me the willies when I think about it. Everybody heated with coal, and it didn't take long for pristine fresh-fallen snow to take on a gray sheen from the perpetual smog that hung over the small towns. One of my daily chores as a little kid was to shovel coal from the coal bin into the hopper on the furnace, and help the old man dig the clinkers out of the grate. I can still see the steam locomotives (in use 'til the late 50's) pulling long trains of coal cars on the lines that hugged both sides of the Susquehanna River, and the poor people who couldn't afford coal delivery walking along those tracks with burlap bags- looking for chunks of coal that had fallen off of those trains. Anthracite truly was the blessing, and the curse, for that region. I love the smell of an anthracite fire; it is a childhood memory that I shall never forget. The picture in my avatar is the coal fire in my EFM stoker.... 
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CoalCracker, that's a neat picture. That's how I remember the firebox in our old coal furnace.
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"Terminal Stare" was smokin!!!!
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I remember ole "Chilly Billy". "Night of the Living Dead" is the standard of horror movies. It was made in SW Pa & Bill had a part in the movie.
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The "Chilly Billy" Family: ![[Linked Image]](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff242/toby0223/thumbnailaspx-1.jpg)
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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The "Chilly Billy" Family: Wow, does that bring back memories! Jeff
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OK, we'll see if this old joke rings a bell with you PA boys. Did you hear that Nick Perry was admitted into the hospital? Apparently, he has a case of water in the balls!  Jeff
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Me too Jeff. Unfortunately.
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OK, we'll see if this old joke rings a bell with you PA boys. Did you hear that Nick Perry was admitted into the hospital? Apparently, he has a case of water in the balls! Jeff 666 (If I remember correctly)
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Me too Jeff. Unfortunately. At least you're not going to jail for it! What the heck was his show called...."Bowling for Dollars" or something like that? Jeff
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Me too Jeff. Unfortunately. At least you're not going to jail for it! What the heck was his show called...."Bowling for Dollars" or something like that? Jeff Bowling for dollars it was! Story of the rigging in Perry's obit announcement! http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20030424perry2.asp
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Now if I could just remember what I had for breakfast! Jeff
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rahtree,
Yep, that's the one! I still remember how the older folks, my grandparents included, were so dismayed that he would do such a thing. He was held in pretty high regard by the Lawrence Welk crowd.
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I thought "Night Of The Living Dead" was filmed in Zelinople?
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I thought "Night Of The Living Dead" was filmed in Zelinople? Nope.....Evans city!
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