Highrise #44

**Board of Trade Building** **Art by:** Chris Hytha **Story by:** Mark Houser As native son Joe Biden and fans of “The Office” know, Scranton calls itself the Electric City. A sign five stories high on the original offices of the local board of trade has spelled out that moniker since 1916. The illuminated sign was put there by one of the building’s main tenants — unsurprisingly, an electric company — and refers to Scranton boasting one of the nation’s first electric trolley lines. An earlier sign saying “Watch Scranton Grow” was the first to grace the rooftop in 1907. Scranton was doing exactly that at the time, as a prosperous shipping hub for the nearby anthracite coal mines. Scranto...View all