Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Other Times --- June 24

100 YEARS AGO – 1908

A Chester businessman who has just returned from a trip to the western section of the state says that Chester has been well-advertised in the past few months because of the Chester Transit strike. Everyone he met who learned he was from Chester could tell him more about the conditions here then he knew himself. He had an unusual experience in one city he had visited. He carried a grip on which his name and place of residence were printed in bold letters. As he was about to enter a hack, the “cabby” noticed the name Chester on the baggage. “Hold on mister,” remarked the driver as he eyed the grip. “What’s that? Chester? What have you got in that satchel, dynamite?” Then he laughed and the Chester businessman understood what his meaning was.


75 YEARS AGO – 1933

A Chester youth was caught in the act of operating a pay phone at the Chester Arms Hotel with spurious coins. He pleaded guilty before Judge Norman T. Boone, who told him, “hereafter when you want to call your sweetheart, don’t use slugs in the public phones.” He was fined $10 and court costs.The Dorothy Shoppe has opened on Edgmont Avenue, Chester, as the city’s newest women’s fashion mart. Miss Dorothy Ripka is the owner.


50 YEARS AGO – 1958

Airman Apprentice John J. Torbik, son of Mrs. Roseanne Torbik, 301 Folsom Ave., Folsom, is serving at Chase Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Beeville, Tex.Although losing out in her bid for the Miss Pennsylvania title, Delaware County’s beauty queen, Maryrose Yates of Upland was awarded a two-year drama scholarship Sydney Speen of 109 Cameron Drive, Sproul Estates, Nether Providence, was chosen state commander at the Pennsylvania Department of Jewish War Veterans.


25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Airman John W. Cooper, son of Ann M. Cooper, 2210 Weir Road, Aston, has completed fuels specialist training at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois. He will be assigned to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.A couple of thieves got little more than back aches for their trouble when they stole an empty safe from the Waverly Movie Theater on Burmont Road, Drexel Hill. The theater manager said the safe was empty because he intended to sell it as scrap metal.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

A Sears employee and two of his friends face conspiracy and theft charges for an alleged scheme to steal merchandise from the Sears store at 69th Street in Upper Darby.

--- LEN CASTERLINE

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