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Sam Levine in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Biden’s home town says farewell to ‘Scranton Joe’: ‘We were very proud of him’

Row of mid-size homes on street that ends in fall leaves, with low mountains in the distance.
Hank's Hoagies in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on election day. Photograph: Elinor Kry/The Guardian

There’s the President Joseph R Biden Jr Expressway that winds off the interstate into the center of Scranton. Then there’s Biden Street, tucked along one side of the square that houses the towering stone courthouse and the sparkling electric city sign downtown. Then there’s Biden Way, an honorary thoroughfare at the intersection of North Washington Avenue and Fisk Street, where the 46th president was born and lived until he was 10.

At Hank’s Hoagies, just down the street from Biden’s childhood home in the Green Ridge section of Scranton, there is a life-size cutout of Biden and shelves of presidential memorabilia. The 46th president is also a member of the restaurant’s hall of fame.

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