Lakemont Park Post Card

| March 21, 2016

 Lakemont Park in it’s day was most likely a most beautiful place to visit. The people of Altoona, PA, were extremely proud of their park and rightfully so. It was heaven for school children and young couples often took advantage of it’s romantic atmosphere to propose in marriage and older patrons walked among the hundreds of natural […]

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Lakemont Park Post Card

| March 21, 2016

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Lakemont Park

| March 21, 2016

 The Casino still exists to this day. However the trees are gone. They were cut down many years ago to expand the park for more amusement rides….  not a good thing to do and the public resented it. I never got to see the true beauty of the park except for these post cards and other photos […]

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Lakemont Park

| March 21, 2016

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Lakemont Park Pool

| March 21, 2016

 The Lakemont Park pool was the hi light of the park. The water was often like ice but it did not stop the fun.  In 1988 it was nothing more than cement bowl. The Capell family opened the park without the pool. It was in their mind to repair it as we knew that it would be […]

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Lakemont Park 1989 Billboard

| March 21, 2016

 This is one of many billboards that were put up throughout Blair  County. 

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Lakemont Park 1960 Train

| March 21, 2016

 The gentlemen in this photo are unknown to me. It was during the time when the Thompson family were running the park.

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Lakemont Park 1960 Train

| March 21, 2016

 Workers constructing the train station. 66 years ago.

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Lakemont Park 1960 Train

| March 21, 2016

 The train station had a dual purpose. One for loading passengers and in winter to store the train from the harmful snow and rain.  

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Lakemont Park Sept 18 1960 Train

| March 21, 2016

 In 1988 we discovered that there was a small station that needed repair but it didn’t have a train. Bill Capell, then went to an amusement park that he knew of and bought a beautiful train from Tammy Fay Baker. The personal joke among ourselves was that we renamed it “The Mascara Express”.

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