In the 1970s, Gooding Amusement Company agreed to bring a 100-foot double Ferris wheel as the featured attraction at the Grove City Community Fair at Windsor Park; that ride was usually only available at state fairs or large county fairs. Grove City’s event qualified because it was drawing very large annual crowds. In 1975, it was estimated nearly 50,000 people visited five-day, free admission event.

When the 14-screen cinema first opened in the new shopping center on Buckeye Parkway it was known as the Rave Theatre owned by a corporation out of Texas. AMC later purchased the theatre. The first movie theatre in town was the Kingdom Theatre in the Town Center, now Little Theatre Off Broadway. It showed silent films before being converted to “talkies.”

Going, going, gone! Grove City’s first church building was torn down at the end of September to make room for the proposed $60 million Town Center development called Broadway Live. There were hopes to move the church to Century Village but its structural condition prevented moving it from Columbus and Arbutus.

Harrisburg Homecoming Parades always had popular entries. This entry was by the Rosebuds Sunday School class at the Harrisburg Methodist Episcopal Church. The picture was taken in 1917.

Marveen McKinley portrays the Statue of Liberty in the 1935 era photo of the Harrisburg Homecoming. Others in the picture include James Redman as Uncle Sam and Marjore McKinley as Betsy Ross.