Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
Two automobiles were stolen today just before noon on Market Street, a short distance from Chester City Hall. One car, a Ford, owned by Charles Fenza, of Third and Broomall streets, was taken from Fifth and Market streets. The other machine, a Dodge, bearing a Delaware license 9509, was taken from Third and Market streets.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
Police have been asked to locate two male occupants of an automobile who order 12 gallons of gasoline from Hamer Stephens, proprietor of a gas station at City Line Avenue and State Road, Upper Darby, yesterday and drove away without paying for the fuel.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
The Chester Business Men’s Association will join the Franchised Automobile Dealers Friday and Saturday to present the second annual Downtown Auto Show. Nine car dealers include Loughead Pontiac, King Chevrolet, Murphy Ford-Lincoln-Mercury, Buttan Rambler, Bohrer Dodge, Scattolini Motors and Watkins Motors, all of Chester. Miley and Brown Chrysler-Plymouth and Suburban Motors BMW of Media also will take part.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
Hugh J. Ryan of Aston and Nick DiPhillipo of Lansdowne will be among the many U.S. Army 2nd Division veterans attending an annual Veterans Day ceremony at the “Altar of Battles” memorial at the Freedoom Foundation in Valley Forge. The 2nd Armored Division served under General George Patton Sr. during World War II. Both men served in the invasion of North Africa and Sicily, went to England and participated in the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
Upper Darby police called in the Delaware County Bomb Squad and Federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives to handle a potential disaster Thursday afternoon. An arsenal of artillery shells, a dozen fused empty grenades, two boxes of black gun powder, two improvised explosive devices, more than 40 loaded handguns and rifles, a fully loaded automatic machine gun, thousands of rounds of ammunition and crack cocaine were found inside a single home on the 300 block of South State Road. The 41-yearold homeowner and a 64-year-old tenant who lived in the basement were taken into custody. “God forbid if there was a fire in the house,” Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said, calling the house a “ticking time bomb.”