Happy Day for Happy Garden Chinese Restaurant - 501 N 7th Street

3 weeks after a fire closed Happy Garden's doors, they are set to open for business again this Friday, Novemeber 19. Please let's help them celebrate their doors opening again and order some great Chinese food! Their number is 610-432-9330.

MAKING PEOPLE SCREAM? ACTORS NEEDED!

Haunted House Creator, Steve Whol has created yet another masterpiece in the haunted house world. He has built countless mazes of fright in the past that included thrills that chilled the soul. This time he has created one on 7th Street in Allentown, Pa, as part of the Day of the Dead Festivities.
Mastermind Steve is looking for actors to round out his cast of ghouls and unknown things that will bump in the dark. Actors need to be 18+ years old and unafraid to make people scream. Some acting experience preferred but not necessary. The fun will begin at 4pm and continue until 9pm.
If this is you, contact Kathleen Kapila for more information at kkapila@caclv.org or call her at 610-433-5703.
The Day of the Dead Festival is on October 30, 2010.

Two side-by-side facades underway on Seventh

A pair of adjacent, well-loved Seventh Street eateries---Winston's (619) and Ecua Atlantic Seafood (621)---have just begun their own facade makeovers. Now stripped of their homely siding, the two restaurants will get the full Peter Lewnes treatment over the next month or so.

Save the Date: Day of the Dead Festival on 7th coming October 30

Save the date for the first annual Day of The Dead Festival:

---Saturday Oct 30th from 5pm to 9pm.

Come celebrate this traditional festival where we pay tribute to our ancestors.

There will be a haunted house, vendors selling cool stuff, palm readers and spiritual advisors all along the street. We will have a salsa tasting, music, and lots of great food from the restaurants on 7th Street! Come join us and have some scary fun!

If you are a vendor and would like to reserve a spot - call Sharon Smith at 610-433-5703.

MetroPCS coming to long-vacant space at 529 N. Seventh

The mobile phone provider metroPCS is opening a store at 529 N. Seventh, between Liberty and Allen Streets. The space has been vacant (with the occasional temp agency) for the eight years I've lived off Seventh---one of the last vacant storefronts left on the three-block stretch from the 400 to 600 blocks of Seventh.

a doozy of a facade begins

here's the reason for the season...removing aluminum siding to find a building in pretty bad shape but why we help. In a couple of years, there wouldn't be a building left...this one will be our first painted lady.

Even I'm impressed

Here's a before and after that I'm thrilled with...we started doing some residential facades and have taken this one back to it's original historic splendor...we have about 10 done this year with 20 more to go...stay tuned folks: