 The ILGWU was active in civic and political life throughout Pennsylvania.Main Street was the site of an active downtown into the 1970s, with many clothing stores, shoe stores, jewelers, JC Penneys, Kresge's, Woolworth's, drug stores, restaurants, theaters and banks.It was home to at least two theaters, the Roman at 27 South Main and the American at 48 North Main, both of which have been razed.