Parks. Thrills. Nostalgia.
The featured photo above is courtesy the Hershey-Derry Township Historical Society. If you are interested in looking at more photos in their collection, check out the Historical Society’s Online Collections Database after reading this article! On April 21, it was the 50th anniversary of the opening of Hersheypark for its 1968 season. This was Hersheypark’s
Now inside Hersheypark, Castelli’s Hotel was a restaurant that operated from 1940 to 1964 on West Derry Road in Hershey.
The Hershey Abattoir was a meat and commissary company which produced products for Hershey Estates (which was later renamed HERCO, Inc., and is called Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company today). One such product was the Hershey Estates Hot Dog was originally sold in Hersheypark. These hot dogs were apparently good enough that the Abattoir started
James K. Putt – who went by the name Jim – was a chief builder for Milton S. Hershey for the first 25 years of the town of Hershey’s existence. He was born on May 26, 1856, and died on May 11, 1938. Putt lived in Hershey from 1904 until his death. He was married
With the new Park Boulevard opening in late 2016, I thought this would be a good time to look at the last time Park Boulevard was relocated, in 1972. In 1971, R. Duell & Associates proposed closing parts of West Derry Road and Park Boulevard to create a new grand entrance to Hersheypark. Part of
This was a news item I saw in today’s Derry Township (Dauphin County, PA) newsletter. Improvements at Major Intersection to Begin on April 3rd Kinsley Sitework has announced that work will begin at the intersection of Hersheypark Drive and Walton Avenue on April 3rd. The work will require lane closures for approximately four weeks. This
“Where else but in Hershey, Pennsylvania, would you find ten thousand rubber Hershey’s Kisses floating in a lazy river raising money to support a great organization like Children’s Miracle Network?” – Dr. Craig Hillemeier, then chair of the Department of Pediatrics & Medical Director, Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, September 9, 2010. Hershey’s Kisses Regatta
Universal Mobility, Incorporated (UMI), was a company based out of Salt Lake City, Utah that existed from approximately 1967 to 1989. UMI was best known for constructing a handful of monorail systems in places such as Hershey, Pennsylvania, Magic Mountain in California, and the Louisiana World’s Fair in 1984. Other products UMI manufactured included tram
Today’s post is about celebrating Christmas in Hershey. I’ll have a post on the history of Christmas Candylane in a few weeks. So what was it like in Hershey around Christmastime? In the very early years of Hershey, it wasn’t very exciting. Many people didn’t even live in Hershey as the factory was being built
In 1949, Hersheypark created a new area of the park called Kiddieland (initially called Kiddie’s Land in 1949). Part of this new section included two new kiddie rides – Lucas Motor Boat Ride and Horse & Buggy. The purchase of these two rides were first reported in The Billboard on November 27, 1948. Horse &