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Williams Grove Amusement Park

Photo Credit: onlyinyourstate.com

Location: Williams Grove, PA

This amusement park shut down in two thousand five. The park was in operation for one hundred and fifty five years. The last time people were legally allowed to wander the park was halloween of two thousand and sixteen. They had an event for Halloween where people could walk through the old abandoned roller coaster, water parks, and fun houses. The park would not have officially closed, if they could have found another buyer to run the park. All the structures in the park are still standing, but they are slowly becoming overgrown by plants. It is located near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. If you wander the park during the year it is considering trespassing. Also the wood on the roller coaster is beginning to rot so wandering up the roller is really dangerous. But there is a lot of cool photo ops and this is one of three in Pennsylvania. 

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Concrete City

Photo Credit: explorepahistory.com

Location: Nanticoke, PA

These giant concrete structures used to house the workers of the Truesdale Colliery company. Compared to other homes given to coal workers at the time, these houses were considered luxurious. There was a park, concrete swimming pool, baseball field, tennis courts, sidewalks, and etc. The typical miner's home was made of wood, packed with too many people, and barely livable. So a home like this was to die for. Typically only the higher up workers could afford to stay in these homes. But the homes were not everything they were cracked up to be. The walls would be covered in condensation, freezing items such as clothing and the wall paper starting coming off the walls. The homes also did not have indoor plumbing so the tenants had to wander out to an outhouse for their bathroom needs. Instead of putting in a sewer system, they abandoned the city all together eleven years after its construction in 1913. The only reason these buildings are still standing is because the attempts of using dynamite failed in blowing up the homes.

For more information visit: http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-1AE

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A fired Snapchat employee wants a judge to unseal information he claims shows inflated user numbers

Former Snapchat employee Anthony Pompliano has opposed Snap's motion to seal his lawsuit. He claims that Snap lied to investors about its user metrics.

Snapchat. Snapchat has skyrocketed in the realm of the stock market. The stock is currently worth twenty two dollars and five cents a share. The market capital of the company is twenty six point zero five billion. It has been in the top 100 apps downloaded on the app store for quite a few years now. Almost anyone in their teens to early twenties who has a smart phone has the Snapchat app installed. Even if you do not have the app, you have seen your kids making funny faces and taking many pictures with the various filters. But according to this former employee, Snapchat may be lying about their numbers and current standings. Anthony Pompliano was once a former employee of the company and he claims to have documents showing their numbers differ from the ones presented to investors and to the general public. He claims that he was fired from the company for presenting the numbers he had found. The public will be able to see these documents after they are presented at the trial this Tuesday. He is also was a former employee of Facebook. Pompliano claims that Snapchat originally hired him to gain competitive intelligence on one of their biggest competitors. Facebook stock is worth one hundred forty one dollars and sixty eight cents. According to this employee Snapchat is willing to do anything to get ahead and according to statistics, the company has a lot of growing to do to compare to Facebook. 

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Lincoln Way

Photo Credit: Sherman Cahill

Location: Clairton, PA

Probably one of the strangest locations posted on this blog to date...

Imagine stumbling upon forty houses, each filled with someone else’s belongings. The closets filled with clothes, shelves with pictures, some driveways containing a parked car, and flickering lights even though there is no electricity. What makes these houses even stranger? Nobody knows why the people of Lincoln Way just fled the premises. It was rumored to have been due to some of the pollution from the factory across the river or because of the decline in the steel industry, but why would they leave their belongings as they left? Why would they not take their cars? Lincoln Way was said to be one of the nicest areas of Clairton in its hay day. After a fire in early April of 2015, many of the houses burned to the ground leaving about ten creepy residences. The local government is hoping to knock down what is left of Lincoln Way.

For more information visit: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/south/2015/04/11/Clairton-fire-decimates-ghost-town/stories/201504110108?pgpageversion=pgevoke

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Trump And Billionaire Ruffin Discussed Vegas Rail Project That Could Benefit Them Both

The project could pose major conflict of interest concerns for the president.

I have mixed feelings about this idea and what Trumps real goal is being president. As we all know Trump is the President of the United States but before that he is a successful business man who owns casino and hotels around the country. This article talks about Trump and his right hand man Ruffin talking about making a railroad coming in and out of Vegas and California. Now this has a big impact on the business world because of people seeing how two billionaires invest there money and what there idea is. But this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Im not going to say i was a Trump supporter but i don't mind him being president. Now saying that i was intrigued when i saw this video because i wonder what Trumps real motives are. I feel like he is still worrying about his business and mixing it in with his power as president. He wants to sign a 5 million dollar bill for this railroad that would help him and Ruffin bring in more business. I think this is great people get to see two great business men figuring ways to make more money but Trump isn't a business man anymore and his attention should go towards other things the country is facing. This is a bad look for Trump but a good perspective for the business world see how they conduct there business. 

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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Photo Credit: Cassandra Duke

Location: Centralia, PA

The last standing church in Centralia, is none other than my family’s Ukrainian Greek-Catholic church. When the town was still highly populated, their was a total of seven churches. On the top of the church and on various head stones in the cemetery, you will find a rather peculiar cross. The cross has an extra diagonal line on the bottom to symbolize that the church is Russian Orthodox. Since the Ukraine used to be apart of the Russian Empire, the two have very similar cultures. The church has become inactive due to the removal of all the townspeople of Centralia. The last time the church was in operation, was six years ago for the 100th anniversary of the church, which was built in 1911. The reason why the government decided to let the church stand is that the church is considered to be outside of the impact zone of the underground fire.

For more information visit: http://www.vpnavy01.com/websites/church/index.html

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Instagram Hits 1 Million Advertisers, Fueled By Small Businesses

Instagram has more than 1 million monthly advertisers, up five times from a year ago, and there are now 8 million business profiles on the app, up about five times since September. The rise in marketers can be attributed in large part to Instagram's focus on catering to small businesses.

This article is amazing, and shows the way marketing has changed drastically in the past decade. At first, I always wondered how Facebook made its money because people would just get to sign up for free. But all along, Instagram, and Facebook built there company to be so popular that business have moved there marketing skills to their company. Companies are now using Facebook and Instagram as a way to advertise their company through social media because they realize there target market is the millennials now. Instagram is making billions off of companies using their website to advertise and this is big for the business world. Now people who are going into their own business have ways that they can reach out to more people through social media to get customers and this changes a lot. At first, I wasn’t a fan of marketing on social media because I feel like a lot of the people on Instagram were young and none potential customers. But now the internet is so big that I believe potential buyers do look online. For myself, I want to advertise my father’s construction company, and what's a better way of doing that then starting with Facebook and Instagram. Think about it, you can upload pictures and even when you’re on the job and you’re trying to sell your work to someone can just see on Instagram or Facebook. This revolutionized way of e-marketing is great for the business world and is the next step to growing small businesses.

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Pier 124

Photo Credit: Cassandra Duke

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Pier 124 also known as Graffiti Pier, is a go to place for graffiti artists and vandalists. Every inch of this pier is covered in layers of spray paint. To some it would be considered destruction of property and to others its a colorful array of art. Pier 124 used to be used for transportation of coal. On top of the pier, there used to run tracks for the various coal cars and machinery. You are able to climb on top of the pier since someone wedged rail spikes into a tree. It is not the safest manner of climbing, but for adventurers, it gets the job done. There is a beautiful view of the Delaware river from the top. The pier went out of use in 1991 because coal mining had moved south. This location is the busiest abandoned place I have been to. You are always accompanied by fellow travelers. 

For more information visit: http://www.12ozprophet.com/news/history-spot-philadelphia-graffiti-pier/