HOLIDAY - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Mount Airy Neighbors recycle Christmas trees

East and West Mt. Airy Neighbors jointly hosted a jolly Christmas tree recycling event this first Sunday after New Year’s at Upsala mansion. Dampness and near freezing temperatures didn’t keep…

January 3, 2021

BUSINESS HOLIDAY machines

First Christmas Trees 🎄 🎄 🎄 of season arrive!

Charlie Gangloff of Top of the Hill market and a helper hoist the first Christmas tree of the season onto an upright the Monday before Thanksgiving. They expect to receive…

November 30, 2017

BUSINESS Food and Drink HOLIDAY

Free coffee draws crowd on National Coffee Day

Hearing that WAWA convenience stores were giving out free coffee in celebration of International Coffee Day, on Friday morning your correspondent headed over to the Mt Airy store to grab…

October 1, 2017

ANIMALS Children HOLIDAY

Pet “reindeer” visits American Legion post for Christmas

Tom Shallow's kids fell in love with "Pocono" at a deer farm in Pennsylvania where deer are bred for their racks and meat and certified as disease free. Saved from…

December 20, 2012

CHESTNUT HILL HOLIDAY SHOPPING

A morning in Chestnut Hill

PASSERSBY REACT TO BOULDER WRAPPED AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT Passersby react to seeing a boulder at the corner of Ardeigh and Evergreen in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, gift wrapped in green…

December 13, 2012

EVENTS HOLIDAY HUMOR

Bocce Club’s July 4th at the Water Tower

At the Philadelphia Water Tower Recreation Center in Chestnut Hill, a magician named John brought Anna and "Jimmy the Paleontologist" up on the stage as audience volunteers. July 4th…

July 5, 2011

Current Affairs HOLIDAY HOUSING

AAA’s Evelyn Houck rescues stranded Christmas Eve drivers

Evelyn Houck, a blond haired, blue eyed, AAA flatbed truck driver and mechanic whose home base is in Southwest Philadelphia made a call late Christmas Eve afternoon to a customer…

December 25, 2010