Overlooking the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania, Reading, is the 'Japanese' style structure known simply as 'The Pagoda'! Read the wikipedia account and history and check out the attached photos!Reading, Pennsylvania, population over 84,000, is the county seat of Berks County...a rural suburban city northwest of Philadelphia, our nations first capital!Reading is making a comeback due to the energies of many concerned residents and area investors and developers...  'The Pretzel City' as it is sometimes called has so many interesting historic venues they are too numerous to mention...from the many 'shopping outlets' to the magnificent 'Sovereign Center'...to its old breweries, steel manufacturers, Albright College, Reading Phillies baseball...to the beautiful Berkshire hills which surr... 03/13/2008