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Originally Posted by Crawford
Wow, Scranton was almost a Top 20 metro. Now it couldn't even dream of matching Allentown. It's now a minor exurban mini-metro.
Great bones, though. At least they still have Dunder Mifflin.
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Originally Posted by Docere
More of a cluster of industrial towns? Scranton had a population of 140,000 (and 76,000 today) in 1940. Wilkes-Barre is 20 miles away and also part of the area. It too lost about half its population (86,000 in 1940, 44,000 today).
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Originally Posted by Crawford
Right, Scranton area is like a mini-version of Germany's Ruhr. There are maybe a dozen mining towns in a valley. Wilkes Barre alone is almost Scranton's equal. Essen is nothing like Frankfurt or Munich but the Ruhr is much more populous.
The Scranton core wouldn't have New Orleans' historical heft, but if you go out in the neighborhoods, I think their prewar heft looks roughly comparable.
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Yes, really just an agglomeration of
somewhat connected, but 1940s disconnected mining/manufacturing towns back then.
The Lackawanna/Susquehanna Valley back then was really just a collection of towns. It's actually much more connected now due to suburbanization bridging the gaps.
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