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(12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Inside the Vicky
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(12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Inside the Vicky

  • (02.08.1906) Hack & Sanner- Fire resulted in losses totaling around $169,000.
  • (1905) Hack and Sanner fire.
  • (02.08.1906) Hack & Sanner Fire.
  • (1905) Hack and Sanner fire.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Fire caused more than $500,000 in 1916 dollars on both sides of Independence Street, from Anthracite Street to near Eighth Street, including the Fair Store, one of Shamokin's leading businesses. It is Shamokin's costliest blaze...[This photo is looking east on Independence Street. The "Fun Shop" Building is at left.]
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Around 9 p.m., just weeks before Christmas, a 17 year-old grocery boy by the name of Ralph Pensyl was heard yelling "Fire! Fire! Fire! The stores on fire!" as he ran down Independence Street. Just five hours later, both sides of the block would be destroyed by flames, leaving 80 people homeless...[The old Victorian Movie Theatre (future site of CVS) is shown here.]
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire.
  • (1916) Fair Store fire in 1916.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store fire.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store fire.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Firefighters came from as far away as Sunbury, loading their apparatus on a train to reach Shamokin. The fire was brought under control at 4 a.m. Some firemen were in service for 56 hours...
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Inside the Vicky
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Inside the Vicky
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- Inside the Vicky
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- The fire was believed to have started in the Malarkey Store. The smell of smoke was first detected by Pensyl, who was working in the basement of Clark Brothers Grocery Store. The fire spread to the grocery store, then to the Fair Store...
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire- The fire was so intense, that it caught the other side of the block of fire.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store fire.
  • (12.16.1916) Fair Store Fire.
  • (01.29.1934) Washington Grade School- Fire that ripped through the building on Sunbury Street that had an estimated loss of $75,000.
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