The Lackawanna Railroad "Phobe Snow" Video

eldiner · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:39 am **Posts:** 534

Sloan wrote:

While we're on the diversion to big bands, the choice of Les Brown's signature tune "Sentamental Journey" for the Lackawanna video is coincidental to his Pennsylvania roots. Brown was born in Reinerton, PA, Schuylkill County.

Sloan

And the resort just north of the Delaware Water Gap (and the DL&W) was owned by Fred Waring for a number of years. I dare say that a lot of big bands played in the resorts of the Poconos where the bands and the guests came in on the Lackawanna.

G. W. Laepple · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 5:10 pm **Posts:** 1182

Schuylkill Valley, you better not let anyone from Shenandoah, Pa. hear you say the Dorsey Brothers were from Hazelton!

Schuylkill Valley · **Posted:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 4:51 pm

Your right, I was thinking of Genettis Ballroom in Hazelton, PA. where they played as well as other ballrooms in the coal country of PA. Their Father worked in the coal mines of Shenandoah, and too played in a band. We have the movie made of their life story. The actor Jimmy Steward was from Indiana, PA.

Len.

tomgears · **Posted:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:47 pm

I think a lot of the Union Pacific film was shot on the Rio Grande.