Slideshow – The History of Conshohocken on February 21st

Conshohocken History Slideshow

2/4/2017

by Jack Coll

The Windmill in Conshohocken…..

The History of Conshohocken in Slides

Hosted by the Conshohocken Junior Women’s Club

Jack Coll will be the guest speaker at the February meeting of the Conshohocken Junior Women’s Club and will feature his Conshohocken slide show on two screens showing and talking about the history of the borough.

If you’ve never attended one of Coll’s slide presentations it’s a delightful trip down memory lane with Coll flashing the vintage photographs on the screen and telling fascinating stories pertaining to the photos and town.

This will be the second year in a row the Junior Woman’s Club has opened their meeting to include the public for Coll’s slide show.

The Conshohocken Junior Woman’s Club was an unofficial organization as early as 1922.  The Junior Woman’s Club officially organized in 1931 and has participated and contributed to many of the town’s leading causes over the years.

The club continues to support Conshohocken in many ways today.  Their legacy is the club has served as a role model in many ways to young females who have been served by the club’s educational programs and guidance in developing programs of social interest to women of all ages.

Coll’s program will last between 45 minutes to an hour and he will announce the release of a two volume set of books that Jack and his son Brian have been working on for six years.  The book titled “Conshohocken and West Conshohocken—People, Places & Stories” is an 8 ½ x 11 format with each volume consisting of at least 525 pages with more than 800 photographs in color and black and white.

Like last year the admission price is a canned good to benefit the Colonial Neighborhood Council, if you can’t afford the canned good all are still welcome, please join us.

The Date:  Tuesday February 21, 2017

Conshohocken United Methodist Church

Located at Sixth Avenue and Fayette Street

Doors open at 6:30 P.M.

Slide show begins at 7:00 P.M.

Admission at least one canned good

Jack and Brian Coll will be on hand to talk about the new book and answer any questions pertaining to the borough of Conshohocken and West Conshohocken before and after the show.

Let’s get back to the photo of the windmill….. is just one of the many cool things that popped up in Conshohocken over the years. It was located at 11th and Fayette and was home to an ice cream shop, a car dealership and a construction office. It was demolished in 1961 to make way for the office building that is in it’s location today. This is the type of stuff that is shown and discussed at the slide shows.