Pictures - Shenandoah Today updated 2/14/07

Columbia Firehouse 100 block S. Jardin St. 1998

Firehouse now Fire Museum 2006

Jefferson School, Centre & Oak(?) Sts. 2006
Back view partially demolished 1998

Capital Theatre Building, 1998

NE corner Main & Centre, formerly Stief's location, 1998

North main St., Caldonia Antiques and American Legion buildings, 2006.

Anney's Garden Cafe, North Main St., 2006

Typical back street scene, abandoned house for sale, 2006

Rick Parker sent along this super aerial photo of Shenandoah (foreground) and Shenandoah Heights(background) that was taken by him and his father last Summer (2002). Picture

This building at the NE corner of Center and Jardin Sts. housed the Lyric Theater in the 1940s. It was one of the three movie houses along with the Strand and the Capitol. The Lyric theater closed down as a theater in 1946 or 1947. It is now the Lyric Restaurant. PICTURE

This high-rise now resides at the south west corner of Main and Oak Sts.
In the 1940s, the Columbia Brewing Company had a building here. PICTURE

This is St. Stephen's RC Church at 14-16 East Oak St. Its ethtnicity is described as "Slovak" by the Allentown diocese. The church front is little changed from the 1940s, although the walls and white doors on either side of the church front may be relatively new.
The sign reads "St. Stephen's Parish, 100th. Anniversary, 1899-1999".
The nuns used to show free movies in the basement on Saturday afternoons with a little religion mixed in for us heathens. I remember watching the 30s version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" here, starring Lon Chaney. PICTURE

The store front on the right is on the NW corner of Center and White Sts.
In the 40s it was a "tap room" serving mostly draft beer. Whenever I went to the library, which was a little further down White St., I would stop in the tap room and ask for a glass of water. This would peeve the bar tender no end but seemed to amuse the patrons. Once I got my water, I was told to drink it quickly and to get out. PICTURE

This abandoned school at the southeast corner of Lloyd and White Streets is
the J. W. Cooper Public High School. The main entrance is on White Street and has two doors, one marked for girls and the other for boys. PICTURE
The empty lot on the right was once was the location of the Junior High School and the library. PICTURE
Rose Marie Dougal recalls,
"That building with doors marked boys & girls was my high school J.W. Cooper and indeed the lot next to it was the library and junior high school. My home room was on the third floor with Miss Fahey. Across the street was the old Wilson building which housed the music, Arts, Shop and Home Economics departments."

Looking south across Center St. just west of Main. The building on the left is the M & T Bank facing onto 2-8 S. Main. This parking lot is the approximate location of the Ferguson Hotel in the 1940s. The houses on the right side of the picture face onto Ferguson St. I believe that this is also now the location of the major bus stop in town. PICTURE