In the 1977 movie Slap Shot, a comedy about a fictitious rag-tag team known as the Charleston Chiefs, player/coach Reg Dunlop (played by Paul Newman) leads his team to an unlikely championship. Johnstown itself plays a starring role in the film as the declining factory town, Charleston. Several Johnstown venues appear in the film, including Johnstown Train Station, The Hendler Hotel (now the Social Security Administration), Cambria County War Memorial Arena, and Main Street, which runs along Central Park. One of the most memorable snippets of dialogue in the film took…
