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Dina Tilghman's avatar

Thank you so much for this article. My grandfather, George Briehler, built Stage Depot and Pennytown village and I grew up there with the rest of my family through middle school. He also owned the bowling alley Patricia’s Hiohela, named after his wife and my grandmother, Patricia. It’s amazing to us the positive memories people have of the place, which was so central to our family. I wish my Grandpop was alive to still see how people remembered what he built.

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I remember going there when I was a child. There was a peacock, among other birds there, and we used to love if and when it went open up and spread its tail feathers. So beautiful. Other memoirs flooding in like going there and getting an ice cream sundae at the little restaurant after seeing the Ho-Val high school musical with my Dad or cutting off my long blond hair and getting a Dorothy Hamill haircut at the salon which made me so excited. Haha. Fun little memories of a great little place.

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