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Jim Thorpe is economic bright spot

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

From the Times-News:

Jim Thorpe’s tourist-based economy saw a significant upswing in July as a series of factors came together to produce a perfect storm of positive coincidences.

One of the beneficiaries is Mike Guy of the Rainbow’s End Ice Cream shop in Jim Thorpe.

“We had our second biggest July in our 12 years,” Guy said. “Sales were up about 10 percent over last year.”

Paul Fogal of Pocono Whitewater also had a good July with whitewater release Saturdays filled, Sundays at 75 percent of capacity, and a float trip on nearly every weekday. He guesses that sales are up 5 to 10 percent over last year?

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Old Jail Museum hits landmark visitor count

Monday, August 9th, 2010

From the Times-News:

The Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe hosted some landmark visitors as the total number of people who have now toured the historic lockup reached the quarter-million mark this past Saturday.

The arrival of four family members for the Old Jail tour took the museum past the 250,000 visitor threshold as they passed through its formidable fortress-like doors.

The four visitors were Joseph Romito and his son Joey from Wyndmoor; and his two grandsons Andrew and Michael Eisenhardt, both of Jim Thorpe.

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Trains are major attraction in JT

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

From the Times-News:

Maybe passenger train service will never equal its popularity of past generations, but a comeback from virtually dormancy has occurred. More people are hearing the familiar boarding wail of railroad conductors as they visit small passenger tourist lines across the nation and even abroad.

One needs only to visit Jim Thorpe any weekend between May and December to see the long lines of people waiting to board the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway to know how popular the trains have become.

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