Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: A contract was signed for the building of a five-story hotel on the northeast corner of Fourth Street and Edgmont Avenue, opposite the Edgmont Theatre, in Chester. Work on the new hostelry, which will cost approximately $75,000, will be started Monday. The house and stores on the site have all been razed. It is proposed to have the hotel finished by Oct. 15.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
Thirty persons, including four alleged proprietors, were seized in a raid on the Independent Social Club, East Seventh Street near Welsh, Chester, early Sunday morning. The club is said to have been operating
without either charter or license.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
Pennsylvania State University’s Delaware County campus should be discontinued as a two-year school, and Penn State’s Ogontz campus in Montgomery County should be relocated in Delaware County and developed into a four-year regional college. That was the recommendation contained Thursday in an independent report prepared for the State Board of Education.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
Ramona Africa, the lone surviving adult from the 1985 bombing of MOVE, said she was not surprised by the fiery violence at the
Branch Davidian cult’s Texas compound. “While we could not say we expected something like this, we are not surprised,” said Africa. “Things are not getting better since May 13, 1985.” She said she watched the Waco fire on television, just as the country once watched her home burn.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
If the preview offered by Penn-Delco School Board President Anthony Ruggieri materializes, Monday night’s meeting of the board will include a longawaited decision on the installation of a turf athletic field at Sun Valley High School as well as an official statement regarding a $100,000 grant, which the state Department of Economic and Community Development has deemed inappropriately spent (intended for technology items for students and instead spent on landscaping and a $33,355 statue at Sun Valley High School). For months, the board has been discussing options for the installation of a projected $1 million artificial turf playing field at Sun Valley High School. “This is not the time for [turf installation],” Aston resident Josephine Hamilton said at a recent meeting. “There are enough expenses and the economy is down the gutter. We need to do all we can to keep taxes low.”