I had been told that Hollidaysburg was pretty nice, but nothing prepared me for how nice this small town (pop. 5,000+) is. Located just south of Altoona, it blows that larger city away. In fact, in my opinion, it beats the pants off of the more hyped city of Bellefonte, and I like it better than Lititz as well.
Ex-Ithacan, if you haven't been here, start packing your bags.
gorgeous photos of "the perfect town"... I always assumed this is where Blair County's professional class resided.. the courthouse is stunning... and I love those intimate streetscapes
it pisses me off to be in an ugly town surrounded by sprawl, in an area full of beautiful towns surrounded by wooded hills and farmland. Why couldn't Penn State have been founded in Bellefonte?
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Doesn't look like the kind of place you can fling an old sofa into the street in.....
definitely a classy little place. Lots of nice detail and colour. Good post hero.
Yessir hero, I've been there. It's a charmer indeed. Made all the better loking by the fact that it's next to Altoona. Love the railroad history of the place too. I'll give the nod to Hollidaysburg for the houses, but Bellefonte still gets my vote for best small PA city downtown. Thanks for the pics hero.
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hollidaysburg is nice -- it's the seat of my home county and i had a killer game in leftfield there when i played HS baseball -- but i wouldn't go saying it beats the pants off of bellefonte. bellefonte's got more going for it; h-burg suffers from the same drag that most of those small PA towns does. it's not dead, but it's not thriving or growing.
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