Over the years, Valentine’s Day in Northeastern Pennsylvania was marked by snow. Here is a collection of images from those snowy Valentines.
1940
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- Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Corner of Spruce St and Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Corner of Spruce St and N. Washington Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- N.Washington Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Corner of Linden St and Wyoming Ave on Feb 14, 1940. Times-Tribune Archives
1950
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- An unidentified man and young girl stranded by the side of the road during the Feb. 13 and 14, 1950 winter storm that blew through our region. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Farmers of the Montdale area helped to dig out the car of a neighbor on Feb. 15, 1950 that was encased in a snow drift that was more than three feet deep. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Thirteen people waiting for a Scranton bound bus at Boulevard Ave at Rebecca Ave in lower Throop on Feb. 13, 1950. The bus were packed throughout the county due to the suspension of Delaware & Hudson Passenger Train between Scranton and Carbondale because of soft coal emergency. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Men trying to free a car buried in a snow drift at Finch Hill Corners on Feb. 15, 1950. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Image of the Washington Ave side of Courthouse Square on Febuary 15, 1950. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Image of the Washington Ave side of Courthouse Square on Febuary 13, 1950. Times-Tribune Archives
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- Mr and Mrs. Felix Cominsky relax in a Finch Hill restaurant where they spent Feb. 14, 1950 after their car was buried in a deep snowdrift. At the feet of Mrs. Cominsky is market basket that their eight-day old daughter slept in until she was picked up by Mrs. Cominsky’s mother after the highway reopened on Feb. 15. Times-Tribune Archives
2007
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- Ron Klocek uses a snow blower to clean the sidewalks in front of his home in the 700 block of South Main Street in Taylor on Wednesday afternoon. Linda Morgan/Staff Photographer photographics/photos/blu monkee not toned
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- Scranton firefighters stand near the scene of a collapsed roof at the site of the CSM Samuel P. Serrenti Memorial U.S. Army Reserve Center in Scranton on Wednesday. Butch Comegys/ Staff Photographer
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- A stuck motorist takes a look to see if traffic is moving on I-380 North where traffic was held up for over six hours on Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007. Jason Farmer/Staff Photographer
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- Lackawanna Ave. was better for walking than driving during Wednesday’s snow storm in downtown Scranton. Butch Comegys/ Staff Photographer
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- A group of people push a Volkswagen that was stuck in deep snow at the intersection of Linden St. and N. Washington Ave. in Scranton. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer photographics/photos/BluMonkee
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- Clarks Summit Ambulance personnel, Scranton Police Patrolman Kevin Davis, and a few motorists, help push a stuck vehicle on the Scranton Expressway on Wednesday. Butch Comegys/ Staff Photographer
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- James Marzolino, wearing boxer shorts, shovels his sidewalk at 427 Cedar Ave., Scranton. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer photographics/photos/BluMonkee
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- Paulette Capwell cleans her car as the 300 block of N. Lincoln Ave. in Scranton is blocked with abandoned vehicles. Car left by motorists hindered DPW atempts to plow many city streets. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer photographics/photos/BluMonkee
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- Barbara Vanston digs her car out on N. Sumner Ave. in Scranton. Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer photographics/photos/BluMonkee
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- D. J. Pilarz, 11, cleans in front of his home in the 200 block of Putnam Street in Scranton on Thursday morning. Residents said that a plow had not cleaned the road as of 11:30 am on Thursday. Linda Morgan/Staff Photographer photographics/photos/blu monkee not toned
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- Adam Simonson digs out Washington Street in Scranton Thursday afternoon. The City rarely plows the one block long street. Johnson Bachman/Staff Photographer Photos/Daily
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- Rebecca Young, of West Scranton, pushes her car as her boyfriend Matt Uronis, of West Scranton, tries to get it out of the snow on Green Ridge Street near North Washington Avenue in Scranton on Thursday morning. Her car got stuck Wednesday around noon. Linda Morgan/Staff Photographer photographics/photos/blu monkee not toned
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