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100 Years Ago – 1918: Fire destroyed the second story of the frame storage house of the Delaware County Electric Light Co. at Front and Market streets, Chester, yesterday afternoon. The damage was confined to the building, most the company’s electrical fixtures having been transferred to the new storage in the Worthington stables.
75 Years Ago – 1943: The 56-yearold proprietor of the Dunbar Restaurant at 230 Market St., Chester, was fined $25 this morning by Magistrate R. Robinson Lowry. The prosecution was the opening gun of a campaign by city and police officials to clean up the streets and empty lots of Chester. The man was arrested after he failed to comply with repeated orders of police and health authorities regarding dumping of rubbish and garbage on an empty lot in the rear of
his restaurant.
50 Years Ago – 1968: The body of an 83-year-old Chester man, listed missing since No. 7, was found Saturday frozen in ice in Ridley Creek about 100 yards south of the MacDade Boulevard bridge. Police said the body was identified as that of the missing West 10th Street man through papers found in a wallet. The man was last seen by his family Nov. 7 when he left the house to talk a walk. The body was found by a Ridley Avenue man as he walking his dog along the creek. Police said there was no indication of foul play.
25 Years Ago – 1993: A witness for developer Donald Gaster told Concord zoners that there is a great demand for low- and moderateincome housing in Concord, but that only 2.24 percent of existing housing
in the township is affordable. Land planner Ronald Turner testified during the 30th hearing on Gaster’s bid to rezone a 57-acre site at Concord and Cheyney roads, known as the Ward Mushroom Farm, for a 231-unit mobile home park.
10 Years Ago – 2008: Haverford officials say they are willing to adjust plans for an indoor community recreation/aquatics center at the Haverford State Hospital site, now that the YMCA has expressed interest in coming to Haverford. “We will not abandon the project,” said Commissioners President Bill Wechsler in response to concerns from residents. Those concerns were best expressed by Tim Rafter, chairman of Support a Pool Lobby for All Swimmers in Haverford, or SPLASH.