The Books are the Work of Coaldale Natives.
"Col. Bob Stoffey was born in Coaldale, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Pennsylvania State University." Coaldale Alumnus, the Class of 1953.
William D. Smith, left Coaldale in his ninth year, graduated from Lansford. Then it was the Marine Corps, college & 48 years of teaching.
Dedication of Korean, Vietnam
and Desert Storm Memorial
$45,000 Loss As Fire Roars In Coaldale Theatre and Dwelling; 8 Firemen Downed in Icy Battle
(Lansford Evening Record, December 27, 1948)
A charred and twisted framework, enmeshed in a ghostly network of ice, is all that remains
of the Ritz Theatre, Coaldale, following a fire discovered at 1:30 o’clock yesterday morning.
Two adjacent homes were damaged as firemen from Lansford, Summit Hill and Tamaqua
joined the Coaldale volunteer company in a heroic three-hour effort that avoided a far more
serious conflagration. A dozen families in the immediate neighborhood stood tense guard
in their homes, hoping for the best but frequently doubtful that the entire block would not be razed.