Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: Two painters fell down an elevator pit at the new Crozer Building, Fifth and Market streets, Chester, yesterday afternoon and sustained injuries which necessitated their removal to the Chester Hospital. Neither of the men was injured seriously. The two were painting the bottom of an elevator and standing of a scaffold when it broke. They fell into the pit, a distance of about 17 feet.
75 Years Ago – 1942: Motorists who waited until today to have their cars inspected were out of luck in many instances. Garages reported this morning that they were overloaded with work, and that many motorists were not going to have the use of their cars after midnight tonight, the deadline for state inspection. The Keystone Automobile Club declared that it had repeatedly warned motorists to have their autos inspected early, pointing out the shortage of mechanics. Many cars will be taken off the road because of the gas shortage, and these motorists will not both to have their cars inspected now.
50 Years Ago – 1967: Today is the deadline for having cars inspected in Pennsylvania. Motorists must have new inspection stickers on their car windshields by midnight or they can’t legally drive their cars. State officials have indicated there will be no deadline extensions. Cars in Pennsylvania are inspected every six months.
25 Years Ago – 1992: Almost 20 local artists and their works will be featured amid song and dance Aug. 15 in a fundraiser for the Chester YWCA at the Deshong Museum and Cultural Arts Center Park, 10th Street and Avenue of the States. The Festival of the Arts will also feature about 50 vendors and their crafts. Local business owners have donated food and other items to the event which will benefit the financially struggling Chester YWCA, said Executive Director Vanessa Williams. “We’d like to make the festival an annual event,” said Williams.
10 Years Ago – 2007: Three Upper Darby residents labeled a “roving wolf pack” by the police superintendent were arrested and jailed for two robberies and are suspects in possibly six other robberies. “These defendants were taken into custody for the wolf pack-type robberies plaguing our neighborhoods over the past several weeks,” Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said of the robberies preying on pedestrians.