Allentown is a city in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is Pennsylvania’s third-most-populous city and the 233rd-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Lehigh County and the largest city in the metropolitan area known as the Lehigh Valley.
Located on the Lehigh River, Allentown is the largest of three adjacent cities (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton) in Northampton and Lehigh counties that make up the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
Allentown is approximately 55 miles (89 km) north-northwest of Philadelphia, the sixth-most populous city in the US, 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Scranton and the Wyoming Valley, 80 miles (130 km) east-northeast of Harrisburg, the state capital, and 85 miles (137 km) west of New York City, the nation’s largest city.
These fascinating photos were taken by Dave Reese while on a guided tour of the architecture of Old Allentown that show street scenes of Allentown in 1978.
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| Looking East on Hamilton Street |
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| Allentown street scenes (probably Chew Street) |
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| 7th Street row |
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| Ace Supply on North 7th Street |
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| Allentown Art Museum |
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| Allentown Brownstone |
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| Allentown National Bank building towers over the newer First National Bank of Allentown |
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| Along Walnut Street |
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| Behind a Ford Fairmont |
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| Buick Electra 225 |
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| Cool turret |
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| Covered porches |
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| Federal Home |
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| Former First Presbyterian Church, the Art Museum |
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| Former Herbst Elementary School |
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| Former Mansion, 1978 Office |
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| Great row of older homes |
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| In the back of Symphony Hall, the former Motoramp parking lot is visible |
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| Looking north at the east side of North 7th Street |
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| Old Allentown Walking Tour |
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| Old Lehigh County Court House |
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| On South 5th Street |
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| Real Estate Office (Probably Chew Street) |
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| Restored home |
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| Row homes |
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| Sixth and Chew Streets, vintage lampost flower planters |
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| Street view |
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| TV antennas |
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| William Allen's Trout Hall |
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| Zion Reformed Church hid the Liberty Bell from the British during a portion of the Revolutionary War |
