It was a motel

Wasn't there an hotel next to the silo

Wasn't it called the airport inn

I used to work at the hotel that was next to the silo

Just watched the video and have read the book (I own a copy). I have always been fascinated by this story and live very near the Grandview church where the teenage boy was shot. Thank you for this video and information.

My two memories of this store are of the overhead cash railway system, and of the subway barber shop outside, just to the left of the store. Stairs led down to a long narrow room where a line of five, maybe six, barbers were at their chairs giving 25-cent haircuts. This was in the 50’s when I was in my pre-teens.

Thank you for all of your great videos!!

No more chucky cheese 😢

I was nearby this summer, and my daughter wanted to see it after hearing all of my stories. She teared up when we walked up to the building! The front entrance still looks exactly like the pic in your video.

I KNOW THIS BUILDING WELL, BUT ONLY FROM THE OUTSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm looking forward to this. I have a receipt from a sale around 1900-ish. That building holds a prominent spot on Penn Street and thus the history of Reading.

I was just at the pavilion last weekend, & there is a hole in the middle of the roof- I see in your video that there isn’t a hole. I wonder if it was vandalism instead of wear…

I have been in the Luden mansion up on City Park when they were trying to start an arts school. It is not that bad. I hope you can get in. I have long been fascinated by the marriage of Bill Luden and his 2nd wife Catherine.

I saw Nine Inch Nails at the Silo in the 90s and also came to dance in the 80s.

Basically, the city is responsible for itself falling apart. Seems crooked that a fire marshal would call a bank to tell them deny financing to improve the place and turn it into something.

Although its sad for me to see my home town literally going to pot and falling down, thanks too for the informative video.

Great information 👍

i grew up in NJ, but have lived in Berks for longer than NJ. Love these informative videos. TY!

Wonderful video! Would love to help with any Western Berks stories you may want to cover here or on the website! I’ve lived in Womelsdorf since 1999 when I was 3. I even became the third generation of home owners in my family in Womelsdorf in 2019! My grandfather was one of the first black Americans to call Womelsdorf home!

Only a few stores opened from the beginning . Most of it was vacant .

I remember this mess and Berks had more as usual

I HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

About time Reading stopped demo work on industrial building which are perfect for repurposing

Walt Troxel died on the track in 1950 during a motorcycle race

I saw him in the basement at Auman’s when I was a kid in early’70’s.

Very sad, i used to love that place.......

I ride up there a with BAMBA (Berks Area Mt Bikers). Thanks for sharing this great info on the history of the area!

I worked at the Black & Decker Outlet (Building 2) from 1978 to 1981. And left the Reading area in 1985. This past week I went thru the old outlets area and was stunned so see how it changed! Looks like the new Sly Fox building replaced the Black & Decker building. Also amazing because I still use a drill that I got from the outlet 45 years ago. Thank you Alexa for sharing this!!!

My father said they used to go out on dates he and the son of the funeral home owner and they would take the Hearst and they would scare the girls having stone Willy in the back.

My father said they used to go out on dates he and the son of the funeral home owner and they would take the Hearst and they would scare the girls having stone Willy in the back.

My father grew up with the sun, whose father owned the funeral home, we’re Stone Willy really was in Reading Pennsylvania. I heard stories about him, my whole Tyler At childhood and I just came across this video.

My father grew up with the sun, whose father owned the funeral home, we’re Stone Willy really was in Reading Pennsylvania. I heard stories about him, my whole Tyler At childhood and I just came across this video.

Going to visit very soon

I used to live there from 00 - 04. My friends lived in the house on the end (building 5). The one with no walls starting at 20:45. I lived in the attic of the middle house (building 3) starting at 23:07. The one where there is a large difference in the height of the ceiling and the floor. A lot of bad things happened there. I watched 9/11 happen in building 2, the one that burned down in 2022.

I live in Dauberville. Is there any record of which farm the slot machines were found on?

I absolutely love this channel. My family and I CONSTANTLY passed this home driving down Lincoln to reach Birdsboro. I'm so upset I didn't know about this home until now!

Interesting, a history lesson and explore all in one.

Thank you for the detailed history of this notorious park. And I believe you were respectful regarding the details, and feel that the lives of Glenn and Marilyn. Everyone in the area at the time was for sure devastated and scared about this, and would have had some sort of connection to the families. I was never able to ask my parents about how this affected them and how they might have been connected to anyone involved. If I had the means and opportunity, all that land should be turned into some sort of sanctuary and be named after Glenn and Marilyn in order to honor their lives. Then they'll be known and appreciated for all generations to come.

Well done! Great visuals and detailed story! Thank you for sharing!

I never knew any of this. Cool stuff! An interview of anyone important to this story would have made this better, but pretty good for just abandoned building footage and newspaper clippings! Now do the mysterious murder of Gary Redner.

Always wanted to see that spring, never did. My uncle used to call this town "sagging spring." 🥰

My father knew Jim Eways back in the time before his 2000s conviction. At one point a friend had a shotgun pointed at him by Eways. Eways lived near an old thing call "the meat locker" on Galen Hall mt. Thanks for the whole story.

you forgot the Ludens crypt. Grew up there haven't been inside in many years.

This was great. Love your stranger Berks playlist.

My father was a well read man. He spent a couple of hours every evening reading the Reading Eagle, so I cannot imagine him not reading about these things. I suppose this is why he always told me to stay away from slot machines and the people that had anything to do with them and don't hang around places that have them.

Nice job with your thorough research. Keep up the good work!

Glen Eckert was my Moms brother's son. My uncle Charles and my Aunt Helen were destroyed because their son was kidnapped,brutally tortured, mutilated and murdered . What any JOURNALIST has never failed to report is that every family member of the Eckert family HATES is when this is dragged out into the open and unburied. The pain of the loss of a beloved cousin is still felt. I might have only been 3yrs old. When Glen was killed but , I knew he was no longer there when I visited my uncles restaurants n my cousin no longer was there to pick me up n hug and kiss me and to tease me that he was going to tell his dad to make me liver n prune juice instead of a cheese burger and French fries. n a cherry coke. The sadness never goes away. The anger that comes up because its always brought up with Dream land park ,never goes away. When I was in college I went to a law professor and begged him to get me the transcripts of the trial so I could understand better what my uncle and the rest of the family suffered through. It has always been my opinion that J.E. got away with murder more than once. My hope is when he dies he will go straight to hell. Best thing that could happen is to bulldoze the entire property and remove everything that was every connected to the name Dream Land Park. What I always wondered is if the police ever used ground penetrating radar, n if it was ever used on that land to see how many bodies are buried there. Yes that land was owned by someone's daddy who was suspected of killing Glenn n Marilynn.

The government gave us $30,000 for 27 acres! We lived on Water Road. I am now 73 years old and haven’t looked over that valley since 1973, the year we had to leave. I don’t want to lose the image of that beautiful valley. I remember Pyle’s store well.

I lived there. They took our 27 acre farm for the dam. Please feel free to contact me.

Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing it