Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
About 300 employees of the Sun Shipbuilding Co. walked out this morning and went on strike on account of salary differences. The men comprise the entire force of employees engaged as riveters. According to reports the differences between the men and bosses is a matter of giving a 5 percent bonus to each man that works each day in the month without losing any time from work.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
Bastille Day, the French sequel to our Independence Day, was marked in Chester with a special retreat and review of the cadet corps of Pennsylvania Military College. Col. Frank F. Hyatt, president and commandant of the college, said that the retreat was held to honor American soldiers who fought in France in the World War and who are fighting now that France may again the blessings of liberty, equality, and fraternity, the principles around which the French revolutionists railed.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
A 20-year-old Chester man was sentenced to six months in prison and placed on three years’ probation on charges of issuing bad checks and fraudulent use of credit cards after being convicted in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. He was described by the FBI as a participant in many major civil rights marches in the South. He was arrested by the FBI after allegedly stealing the credit cards of Mississippi minster and using them for travel in the amount of $2,000. He was also charged with passing bad checks in interstate commerce.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
The sky turned an angry shade of gray around dinner time and whipped the county with a line of nasty thunder storms that wreaked havoc on trees, traffic lights, transformers and most everything else exposed to 60 mph winds and bolts of lightning. Power zapped to eight blocks of Second Street in Chester between Engle and Highland avenues. A large tree on the front lawn of the Media Courthouse was lifted out of the ground by the wind and was left leaning sideways.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
Bill Neil, an emergency manager for Yeadon, stood at the trolley stop at MacDade Boulevard and Woodlawn Avenue in Collingdale. He wasn’t waiting for the No. 102 line to 69th Sreet Terminal, but instead was one of the many Collingdale residents and self-proclaimed history buffs that gathered to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Collingdale Trolley.