(Courtesy of The Beavertown Historical Society)

Shown here is an old photograph regenerated on a computer of the Specht’s Furniture Store about 1910. Note the ornamental woodwork, most of which was made by the Specht furniture factory to be shown in a future issue of the Beavertown News. Most of the high quality wooden furniture made in the factory was taken by train to the coal regions where it was very popular. Of course some of it was sold at the store pictured above.

(What other business used this same building in later years? Answer next month.)

Answer to Last Month

Have you ever heard of the Penn Pines Resort? Back in the 1920s, Mr. Artie Shirk of Beavertown planned to build a big airport just to the north of Beavertown and to build a high rise hotel, with a golf course, riding trails, and the plan include to dam up the Middle Creek to create a lake for swimming, boating, fishing and ice skating, etc.

He had a group of financiers come in and look over the site, and they were favorably impressed and were planning on giving financial help to bring this all about until after the meal served to them at Charles Bobb’s Restaurant, then located where Aurand’s Funeral Home is today. Artie asked them to help pay for their meal. This so smacked of amateurism that they abruptly left and never responded further in the plan.

In the middle 1940s Artie tried to resurrect Penn Pines as the permanent home of the United Nations organization. They considered it, but it too fell through.