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jfschif
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Alert Today - Alive Tomorrow (1956)
Great for old views of Reading, PA
21 May 2011 - 8 out of 9 users found this review helpful.
What really makes this movie valuable is that it is a time capsule of what Reading, PA looked like in its heyday back in the 1950s. Back then it was a thriving community of over 100K people, had three hospitals, good schools, lots of industry, a bustling downtown, etc. None of that exists today. But the movie captures it all for posterity. If you grew up in a thriving small industrial city, you'll see a lot of familiar things in this film. In many ways, Reading is now like the aftermath of an H-bomb, and one that CD couldn't do anything about. The city itself tore down most of the downtown in the 1970s in the name of "redevelopment", which subsequently never came.
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