What are you most famous for?
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
If You’re Most Famous for Something Bad, How do You Make it All Good? Here is a photo of me in my hometown Johnstown PA, standing in front of city hall. Unfortunately, Johnstown is most famous for its three floods. I am pointing up above my head at one of 3 High water makers that shows just how high the water level got to during the 1977 Johnstown flood. Click pic for larger view.
Today, the stories of that tragedy, told in-depth by the Johnstown Flood National Memorial and the Johnstown Flood Museum, still are the “hooks” that draw visitors to Johnstown, a town of 24,000 that’s about 90 minutes southeast of Pittsburgh.
Part of Johnstown’s comeback — after the floods that earned it the moniker of “The Flood City” and its other major disaster, which was the closing of the Bethlehem Steel mills — is based on tourism. (more…)