Williamsport and Lycoming County, Pa.

For the complete roller skating rink dance card, see the following: Roller Skate Diary Card (orange) 1) 1939 Halloween Party / De Luxe Roller Skating (above) 2) Autographs / Memoirs Roller Skate Diary Card Insert (yellow) 3) De Luxe Roller Skating / Treasure Hunt 4) Romance on Roller Skates / Order of Skating -------- 1939 Halloween Party Roller Skate Diary, Sunset Park, Williamsport, Pa. -------- De Luxe Roller Skating Every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday matinee, 2:30 to 4:30, 15¢. Romance, glamour, health, happiness, fun, joy. It's smart to own personal shoe skates. Rink available for Sunday school and private parties. See manager for details. Hammond electric organ for pleasing music.

For the complete roller skating rink dance card, see the following: Roller Skate Diary Card (orange) 1) 1939 Halloween Party / De Luxe Roller Skating 2) Autographs / Memoirs (above) Roller Skate Diary Card Insert (yellow) 3) De Luxe Roller Skating / Treasure Hunt 4) Romance on Roller Skates / Order of Skating

For the complete roller skating rink dance card, see the following: Roller Skate Diary Card (orange) 1) 1939 Halloween Party / De Luxe Roller Skating 2) Autographs / Memoirs Roller Skate Diary Card Insert (yellow) 3) De Luxe Roller Skating / Treasure Hunt (above) 4) Romance on Roller Skates / Order of Skating -------- De Luxe Roller Skating Sunset Park. -------- Treasure Hunt Friday Nite, Sunset Park Rink. A Baumgart Sisters Enterprise.

For the complete roller skating rink dance card, see the following: Roller Skate Diary Card (orange) 1) 1939 Halloween Party / De Luxe Roller Skating 2) Autographs / Memoirs Roller Skate Diary Card Insert (yellow) 3) De Luxe Roller Skating / Treasure Hunt 4) Romance on Roller Skates / Order of Skating (above) -------- Romance on Roller Skates Sunset Rink Song, by Henry. Romance on roller skates / One glance I met my fate / The chance we all must take / I'm glad that I could wait. The lights were turned on low / She smiled, her eyes aglow / We began to skate and so, / Romance began to grow. As the organ played / We rolled and swayed / My heart disobeyed, / But I was not afraid. So now my life's complete, / Because I've found my mate; / Each night we will repeat-- / "Romance on Roller Skates." A Modernistic Skateland. -------- Order of Skating 1) Sunset Skate for Couples. 2) Drop Back Skate. 3) Trio Skate. 4) Moonlight Skate for Couples. 5) Two Step. 6) Grand March. 7) Ladies' Choice. 8)F Foursome Drop Back. 9) Kiss Skate. 10) Waltz for Couples. 11) Popular Request. 12) Reverse Skate. Happy Skating--Come Again Soon.

"Sunset Park. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Skating New Year." This photographic greeting card shows sisters Beatrice, Henrietta, and Victory Baumgart (I'm not sure who's who in the photo). The Baumgart sisters operated the Sunset Park Rink in Williamsport, Pa., for a number of years in the 1930s. For a related item, see Halloween Party, Sunset Park Rink, Williamsport, Pa., 1939 (1 of 4) .

"The boys keep me busy at the phone in Jersey Shore, Pa., so excuse me for not writing sooner."

A turkeys photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. Caption on the front of this real photo postcard: "Fry Bros. Turkey Ranch & Dining Rooms, 20 miles north of Williamsport, Pa., on Route 15. Caulkins, T-14." A restaurant with its own turkey farm, the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch and Dining Rooms opened for business near Trout Run, Pennsylvania, in 1939. Located along U.S. Route 15 on Steam Valley Mountain, it's situated about 20 miles north of the city of Williamsport and about 100 miles north of Harrisburg, the state capital. The restaurant celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014 and is still known today as the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch . Although the owners serve about 100,000 customers a year, they no longer raise their own turkeys. I stopped at the restaurant in 2006 while traveling north to New York State, and I had a tasty meal of turkey and waffles there. It was so good that I had to stop again for some more turkey and waffles on the way back. For some real photo postcards showing the restaurant in the 1940s or 1950s and some of my own photos from 2006, see my Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch Restaurant album.

Billboard: "The Home of Fry Bros. Turkey Ranch & Dining Rooms. Turkey dinners, $1.25. 24 hour diner service. Tourist home." Caption: "Caulkins, T-58." Here's a 2006 view taken from about the same vantage point (below). The billboard is no longer there, unfortunately.

Caption: "Fry Bros. Turkey Ranch & Diner on Rt 15, 20 miles no. of Williamsport, Pa. Caulkins Photo, Morris, Penna. T-106." A real photo postcard view (circa 1940s-1950s) of what is now called the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch Restaurant. There are no crowds of customers in my photo of the same scene in 2006 (see below), but the service station is still there, and I believe that the building in the background--hidden behind a new extension to the front of the restaurant--is still there, too.

A photo of something beginning with C —in this case, a coach on a photographic Christmas card —for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. "Best wishes for a Merry Christmas. Ollie." Oliver "Ollie" Fawcett coached the Lycoming Dairy team, which was an early Little League Baseball team in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He used a photograph of himself and the team on this Christmas card from the 1950s. Coach Fawcett and the boys are posing in front of the field house at what is now known as the historic Carl E. Stotz Field , which is named after the founder of Little League .

Coach Oliver "Ollie" Fawcett and the Lycoming Dairy Little League Baseball team posing in front of the field house at the historic Carl E. Stotz Field . Fawcett used this photo on a Christmas card in the early 1950s.

The Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch Restaurant is located along the southbound side of busy U.S. Route 15. See below for a real photo postcard that shows how the restaurant looked in the 1940s or 1950s. As I took photos of the restaurant when I visited in 2006, I had to wait for numerous tractor-trailer trucks to pass by in order to get a clear shot of the restaurant. Note the two trucks parked near the Citgo gas pumps in the background of the photo above, and see two examples of the many trucks that noisily whizzed past (see photos below).

The Fry Brother Turkey Ranch Restaurant in a photo taken in 2006 (above) and in a real photo postcard dating to the 1940s or 1950s (below).

A tractor-trailer truck travels past the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch Restaurant, which is located along the southbound side of busy U.S. Route 15. The back of a sign is visible on the right-hand side of this photo. For the front of the sign , see below:

Many tractor-trailer trucks travel past the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch Restaurant, which is located along the southbound side of busy U.S. Route 15. See below for another truck.

"Allegheny Mt. Range, Susquehanna Trail, Elevation 1704 feet, U.S. Route 15." This sign stands across the road from the Fry Brothers Turkey Ranch Restaurant, which is situated atop Steam Valley Mountain, part of the Allegheny Mountain Range in Pennsylvania. The restaurant is located along U.S. Route 15 , a busy north-south highway. For most of its length, Route 15 coincides with the path of the old Susquehanna Trail , which was an auto trail that ran from Washington, D.C., to Niagara Falls, New York. Although it's no longer an official designation, the "Susquehanna Trail" is still widely used as a name for roads, businesses, and places. The back of this sign is visible in another photo I took of a truck passing by the restaurant (see below).