The Magazine of the Greater Jim Thorpe Area
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Vol. 3 No. 1

Mar. 2006

Check out this month's feature stories from the Greater Jim Thorpe area. See why people are saying, "I didn't know that."

Pop Culture 1

Pop Culture 2

Only a generation ago, soda pop brands like Lewie’s. Palm, Whistle, Moxie, and Coca Cola, to name a few, were bottled in Carbon County. The story continues...

 Into the late 1940s, L.H. “Lewie” Dunbar produced a variety of soda pop flavors at his bottling plant in Lehighton. The story continues...

Pop Culture 3

Pop Culture 4

Harold Queen has some old bottles in his collection, so old that he hasn’t been able to determine if they were used for beer or soda.The story continues...

Gordon Ripkey, a former Lehighton High School principal grew up with family in the soda business. The story continues...

Pop Culture 5

Gordon Ripkey’s earliest recollection was the family being together at the Moxie house.The story continues...

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Guide to the bicycling and walking trail through the Lehigh Gorge between White Haven and Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

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