A photograph taken about 1902 of a young boy, Earl “Slappy” Brown, of Orwin, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ
Clue: This week’s photo, taken more than seventy years ago, shows a resident of Orwin. He has put many a young boy back on the road.
Answer: The little chap in last week’s photo was Earl “Slappy” Brown of Orwin, who fixed many, many bicycles for boys and helped them “get back on the road.”
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From “Memory Lane,” West Schuylkill Herald, 14 February 1974, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, via Newspapers.com. Readers submitted photos. A clue was given. And, the answer was provided in the next week’s edition of the newspaper.
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