Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1917:

Though only 48 hours has marked a change in Chester parking regulations on Market Street and Edgmont Avenue, between Third and Ninth streets, little trouble is being experienced in seeing that the new rules are enforced. All vehicles must park on the east side of Market Street and Edgmont Avenue. A general howl went up from merchants on the east side, while merchants on the west side, who have suffered for the past two yeas, wore a smile of satisfaction upon hearing of the change.

75 Years Ago – 1942:

Four sticks of dynamite were found floating in this Delaware River off Marcus Hook yesterday. The discovery, coming on the heels of sensational raids made by 100 FBI agents, 30 Chester policemen and five Marcus Hook policemen, led police to believe the explosives were tossed into the river by an alien saboteur.

50 Years Ago – 1967:

Chester will sponsor a bounty payment program in an effort to reduce or eliminate rats, Mayor James H. Gorbey announced. Gorbey said the city will pay 10 cents for each rat tail submitted for claim by county hunters beginning Aug. 15. City council has endorsed the plan and made arrangements for payments. “This program will help rid the city of disease-spreading rats at a nominal cost,” Gorbey said. “We could eliminate 10,000 rats for only $1,000.”

25 Years Ago – 1992:

An office building that will house three state agencies – the Department of Labor and Industry, Department of Public Welfare and Department of Probation and Parole – will be built on open space just east of Chester’s central business district. City officials hope the building will spark the development of an office park on a series of adjoining vacant lots owned by the Chester Redevelopment Authority near a feral office building in the 100 block of Seventh Street.

10 Years Ago – 2007:

While Delaware County has 50 bridges listed as structurally deficient by PennDOT, officials insisted Tuesday all of them are safe and open to motorists. The term “structurally deficient” is used when one component of a bridge is deteriorating, such as the beams or a concrete deck, but it “does not mean the bridge is unsafe,” according to PennDOT spokesman Gene Blaum. The 50 structurally deficient bridges represent 13.5 percent of the 370 stateowned bridges in Delaware County.