Tube City Almanac

April 07, 2009

The Mysterious Murphy's Store

Category: History, Mon Valley Miscellany, Obscure Ephemera || By


OK, McKeesporters old, young, past and present: Can you identify the location of this Murphy's store?

This is a screen capture from a 1940s film.

Here's a hint: According to the narration, the film takes place in a steel-making town "somewhere on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border."

The answer is available at the G.C. Murphy Memories website.

A tip o'the Tube City hard hat to the editor's dear, sainted mother, who spotted this on Turner Classic Movies with her eagle-eyes.

(No, not those Eagles ... she was a PV-L Bulldog, which yes, indeed, makes me a son-of-a-you-know-what.)

(And a reminder that opinions expressed at Tube City Almanac and at tubecityonline.com are not those of the G.C. Murphy Co. Foundation, its directors or their affiliates. Sometimes I'm not sure whose they are, come to think of it.)






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