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Paper Symposium Day began with opening remarks from Jeremy Ebersole who would MC the day's presentations.

The first presentation, Re-Routing: Driving the US Route System, was by Anastasia Karel. Greg Holmes then spoke on Survivors of the 60s: The Dinosaur Sculptures of Louis Paul Jonas. Izabela Pieniadz presented A Retreat for Middle-class America: The Motels of Lake Michigan then April Bryan finished the first session with Logs, Lakes, and Lighthouses: Michigan Through the Lens of Its Regional Commercial Signage.

After a snack break, Gary Wolf got things going again with It Looks Like a Gas Station. Then Zachary Burt's Learning from Commercial Thoroughfares and the Development of the Recent Past: An Evaluative Framework for Historic Preservationists and Mindy Gulden Crawford's Don't Chain Yourself to tht Bulldozer... Yet... took us to lunch time.

Following the lunch break, a collection of local experts and officials gave several short presentations and a group Q&A session under the heading Designing Erie (From Advertising to Asphalt).

The final set of presentations began with Hazleton, Pennsylvania: Anthracite Coal and Roadside Commercial Development from Cynthia Drazenovich and Harold Aurand Jr. Then it was Alan Woodruff's Before They Were Macey's... and Where Industry and the Appalachians Meet: Western Pennsylvania's Amusement Parks from the appropriately dressed Jennifer Sopko.

Following the dinner break, a sizable group car-pooled to Waldameer Park. Although it is that early part of the season when it is open only on weekends, thanks to arrangements made by Brain Butko, we were allowed to roam the quiet amusement park. Founded in 1896, Waldameer is the tenth oldest amusement park in the country and fourth oldest in the state.

Neither Brian Butko nor Jennifer Sopko knew of any special significance to the statues placed throughout the park, there are a bunch and they certainly make an impression.

Most of the group then slipped over to Sara's Restaurant where an intact but idle 1957 Mountain View diner sits behind the main restaurant. I ordered and picked up my vanilla shake at the proper windows then moved outside to enjoy it.

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