Today in Remember When, The Reporter features one of its own.You may know him as “Charlie the Car Guy.” More recently, Charlie Christy was named online sales manager for The Reporter.

But perhaps you didn’t know that he’s been a top salesman for a long, long time.Charlie has graciously shared with us a photo taken back in the early 1970s, which was snapped by Willard Kriebel, who was the chief photographer for The Reporter.

Charlie’s the one with that bit of a head tilt going on, obviously pleased with himself for being named top salesman when he played CYO Football for St. Stans in Lansdale.

The caption with the photo notes that he is the top ticket seller and reads: “Jason St. James holds the football awarded to Charles Christy (center) for selling the most tickets to the show recently held to aid Norristown flood victims. Christy is a member of the CYO football team which sold tickets to the show. Looking on are the CYO coach Terry Sandone (rear) and Robert DeFinis.”

Now Charlie admits that his memory isn’t crystal clear on the events surrounding this photo.“From what I remember, it may have been 1972. Jason St. James was an up and coming local singer. My parents tell me he was Skeets Mariano, the son of the owners of Marino’s Tavern on Broad Street. He was performing a concert to benefit the flood victims and all of the CYO teams were selling tickets to help.”Charlie noted that of the people in the photo, “the one I remember the best was Tony Sandone, he was our football coach and the best coach I ever had.”Maybe some people out there can jog Charlie’s memory a bit ... or at least compliment him on this great photo.

Awhile back, we published a few photos from when the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage camped out in Lansdale, back in 1976, the year of the nation’s bicentennial. Lansdale was one of the stops along the way, as the wagons pulled in July 2 at what was then Penndale Junior High School, as it made its way to Valley Forge National Historical Park.

Running those photos in Remember When prompted Bettyanne Geikler of Harleysville to lend us her scrapbook from that time. In it she had stories and photos from The Reporter and other publications about the wagon train and other aspects of that bicentennial year.

Because of the type of scrapbook she maintained, we were not able to remove individual photos, so we opted to scan in one of the pages, which showed people at the campground at Penndale. Note that it is marked “Merck co-workers, Jack Armstrong and Gary Kester.”

Thirty-three wagons were here in Lansdale, making up the Great Lakes train. It was quite the undertaking, obviously, to have all of these branches of the wagon train make their way from their respective areas, finally meeting up at Valley Forge.

Some from the West Coast were actually on the road for a year as part of this project. Thank you, Bettyanne, for sharing this with us.