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50 years ago: Oct. 29, 1975
Altoona found it would cost $1.8 million for the Hamilton Park Development Plan for a 70-acre commercial site along Chestnut Avenue to 21st Avenue they called a "new town in town."
25 years ago: Oct. 29, 2000
Cal Ripken Jr., 40, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles who played in a record 2,632 Major League games in a row, was at Blair County Ballpark in Lakemont to check it out after investing in a minor league and baseball teaching academy in his hometown of Aberdeen, Md.
10 years ago: Oct. 29, 2015
A Canadian-born Hare Krishna monk named Bhaktimarga Swami, 63, along with several aides, passed through Altoona on a walk from Boston, Mass., to New York to show people happiness is found in simplicity.